Defoe traces the Devil's career from his fall to his meddling in human affairs, half history and half satire.
Books that mention The History of the Devil (2)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “The 'History of the Devil,' by Daniel Defoe,--not quite the right book for a little girl," said Mr.”
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “(epigraph) Satan, being thus confined to a vagabond, wandering, unsettled condition, is without any certain abode; for though he has, in consequence of his angelic nature, a kind of empire in the liquid waste or air, yet this is certainly part of his punishment, that he is ... without any fixed place, or space, allowed him to rest the…”