{"product_id":"lucifer-maurice-magre-9781612276762","title":"Lucifer","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.\u003cbr\u003e This volume, the seventh of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre's works, contains the novel Lucifer and the novella The Night of Hashish and Opium (both 1929). The former reads as a kind of confession exploring a demonic possession resulting from a casually-made diabolical pact--which might or might not be entirely subjective and psychological. The Church is at best impotent, at worst in tacit alliance with the forces of evil and the narrator is forced to find his own way out of his predicament--if he can.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As an account of metaphorical possession, it is detailed with a persuasive conviction, if one regards its essential purpose as that of sowing a discomfort in the reader's mind similar to one experienced by the author.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In The Night of Hashish and Opium set in India, a young, lovely, divorc e is caught in a magical trap by men who bet that they could force the beautiful woman who once turned them down to dance in the magical temple of Chillambaram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurice Magre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1612276768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612276762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hollywood Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Maurice Magre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939158360319,"sku":"9781612276762","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_869afe27-25d5-4dbb-b8f4-0fbf53736008.jpg?v=1681439839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lucifer-maurice-magre-9781612276762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}