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"The Gentleman" Novel Frontispiece of The Devil Himself- Mahendra Singh (2016)

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The Gentleman Novel Frontispiece of The Devil Himself- Mahendra Singh (2016) Comic Art

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Title:	"The Gentleman" Novel Frontispiece of The Devil Himself- Mahendra Singh (2016)
Artist:	Mahendra Singh (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	87
Likes on CAF:	1 2
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Added to Site:	10/21/2024
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This piece by Mahendra Singh for the frontispiece of the novel "The Gentleman" by Forrest Leo depicts the Devil himself in suit. This illustration is jam packed with detail and meaning such as the framed knit piece on the wall is the phrase uttered by the Devil in Dante's Inferno that to this day has never been translated. There is much to be discovered in this image of the Devil!

Here is an overview of the novel:

A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil--then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his butler that they're broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil -- the polite "Gentleman" of the title -- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party's over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. Newly in love with Vivien, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons, the butler; Tompkins, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage's spirited kid sister, Lizzie, freshly booted from boarding school for a "dalliance." Throughout, his cousin's quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Lionel and his friends encounter trapdoors, duels, anarchist-fearing bobbies, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh, action-packed and very, very funny, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Herg 's beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.

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