A winter of 1590 a strange character comes by surprise to Eseldorf, a village in Austria. His name is Satan and he is capable of doing prodigious things. The mysterious stranger will soon turn upside down the entire neighborhood, and not only for his spectacular works but also for his efforts to ridicule the human condition, for him much wilder than the world of animals. With a waste of imagination that crosses the frontier of fantastic literature, Mark Twain laughs at religious rites and social cruelty through an acid and provocative humor, much more bitter than he used in most of the works that have made him famous. Considered one of the most satirical and scathing titles of its author,
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