The Devil on Two Sticks
by
Alain-René
Lesage
Contents
PREFACE
By Joseph Thomas
NOTICE OF LE SAGE
By Jules Janin
CHAPTER I
WHAT SORT OF A DEVIL HE OF THE TWO STICKS WAS—WHEN AND BY WHAT ACCIDENT DON CLEOPHAS LEANDRO PEREZ ZAMBULLO FIRST GAINED THE HONOUR OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER II
WHAT FOLLOWED THE DELIVERANCE OF ASMODEUS
CHAPTER III
WHERE THE DEVIL TRANSLATED THE STUDENT; AND THE FIRST FRUITS OF HIS ECCLESIASTICAL ELEVATION
CHAPTER IV
THE STORY OF THE LOVES OF THE COUNT DE BELFLOR AND LEONORA DE CESPEDES
CHAPTER V
CONTINUATION OF THE STORY OF THE LOVES OF THE COUNT DE BELFLOR AND LEONORA DE CESPEDES
CHAPTER VI
NEW OBJECTS DISPLAYED TO DON CLEOPHAS; AND HIS REVENGE ON DONNA THOMASA
CHAPTER VII
THE PRISON, AND THE PRISONERS
CHAPTER VIII
OF VARIOUS PERSONS EXHIBITED TO DON CLEOPHAS BY ASMODEUS, WHO REVEALS TO THE STUDENT WHAT EACH HAS DONE IN HIS DAY
CHAPTER IX
THE MADHOUSE, AND ITS INMATES
CHAPTER X
THE SUBJECT OF WHICH IS INEXHAUSTIBLE
CHAPTER XI
OF THE FIRE, AND THE DOINGS OF ASMODEUS ON THE OCCASION, OUT OF FRIENDSHIP FOR DON CLEOPHAS
CHAPTER XII
OF THE TOMBS, OF THEIR SHADES, AND OF DEATH
CHAPTER XIII
THE FORCE OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XIV
THE SQUABBLE BETWEEN THE TRAGIC POET AND THE COMIC AUTHOR
CHAPTER XV
CONTINUATION, AND CONCLUSION, OF THE FORCE OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XVI
THE DREAMERS
CHAPTER XVII
IN WHICH ORIGINALS ARE SEEN OF WHOM COPIES ARE RIFE
CHAPTER XVIII
RELATING TO OTHER MATTERS WHICH THE DEVIL EXHIBITED TO THE STUDENT
CHAPTER XIX
THE CAPTIVES
CHAPTER XX
OF THE LAST HISTORY RELATED BY ASMODEUS: HOW, WHILE CONCLUDING IT, HE WAS SUDDENLY INTERRUPTED; AND OF THE DISAGREEABLE MANNER, FOR THE WITTY DEMON, IN WHICH HE AND DON CLEOPHAS WERE SEPARATED.
CHAPTER XXI
OF THE DOINGS OF DON CLEOPHAS AFTER ASMODEUS HAD LEFT HIM; AND OF THE MODE IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK HAS THOUGHT FIT TO END IT.
