Satan in literature
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Many writers have incorporated the character of Satan into their works. Among the most famous works are, in chronological order:
Literature
- Dante Alighieri's Inferno (1321)
- Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604)
- Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer (1654)
- John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
- Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (Le Diable amoureux) (1772)
- William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (Part 1, 1808; Part 2, 1832)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835)
- Charles Baudelaire's Litanies of Satan (1857)
- Imre Madach's The Tragedy of Man (1862)
- Jules Michelet's Satanism and Witchcraft (1862)
- Giosuè Carducci's Hymn to Satan (1865)
- Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1867)
- Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Mark Twain's A Pen Warmed Up in Hell (1889)
- Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
- George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (1901)
- George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman (1903)
- Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth (1909)
- Alister Crowley's Hymn to Satan (1913)
- Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
- Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Lucifer (1919)
- Aleister Crowley's Liber Samekh
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Markheim (1925)
- Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
- C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (1942)
- Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
- Anatole France's The Revolt of the Angels (1953)
- William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Robert Bloch's That Hell-Bound Train (1959)
- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1966)
- William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (1971)
- Harlan Ellison's The Deathbird (1974)
- Michael Moorcock's The Warhound and the World's Pain (1981)
- Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (1983-1990)
- Robert A. Heinlein's Job: a Comedy of Justice (1984)
- Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985)
- Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy #8: Devils, an anthology of 18 fantasy short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenburg, and Charles Waugh (1987)
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (1990)
- Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (1995)
- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series (1995-present)
- Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil (1996)
- Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: A Novel (2000)
- Eoin Colfer's The Wish List (2000)
- John A. De Vito's The Devil's Apocrypha (2002)
- Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer (2003)
Devil's Dictionary definition
Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary gives a satirical definition of Satan:
SATAN, n.
One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sackcloth and ashes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. "There is one favor that I should like to ask," said he.
"Name it."
"Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws."
"What, wretch! You, his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul — you ask for the right to make his laws?"
"Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself."
It was so ordered.
