A Modern Mephistopheles Audiobook

Quotes

• “Orginally published as part of a series of anonymous novels by famous authors…Alcott…[has] allowed herself to explore some of the darker passions in her rendering of the Faust tale.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “The language is vigorous and clear, having a sculpturesque effect, and the succession of periods and paragraphs is often so admirable that many pages together seem to be set to solemn rhythm.”

  — Atlantic Monthly

• “Not only is there power in the creation of characters, but in the descriptive narrative, in the very language, situations, diction—all that makes up the work. It is a marvel of modern novel-writing.”

  — Commonwealth

• “A marvelous metaphysical story…One almost shudders while reading this tale, it is so fraught with intensity of evil design on the part of the leading character.

  — Boston Evening Traveller

• “A romance of rare merit. One that steady absorbs the attention from its beginning to its close, and one which culminates in a powerfully interesting scene that could only have been evolved from a vigorous imagination.”

  — Boston Courier

• “This tale of lust and deception will satisfy any who wants a novel of psychological tension and high drama…A complex, involving plot.”

  — Midwest Book Review