On a night in Madrid the student Don Cleofas frees a limping demon, Asmodeus, from a flask in an astrologer’s garret. In gratitude the devil carries him to a high steeple and lifts the roofs of the city, showing him the follies, vanities, crimes and griefs hidden in every house, and telling the stories behind them.
Lesage’s 1707 satire on human nature, as fresh as when it first delighted Paris, in Joseph Thomas’s translation. Download the free EPUB.