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Gentleman, Paperback by Leo, Forrest, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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. 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.

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Condition	Brand New
ISBN	9780399562655
Book Title	Gentleman : a Novel
Publisher	Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length	8 in
Publication Year	2017
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.8 in
Author	Forrest Leo
Genre	Fiction
Topic	General, Literary, Historical, Humorous / General
Item Weight	8.8 Oz
Item Width	5.3 in
Number of Pages	304 Pages

Gentleman, Paperback by Leo, Forrest, ISBN 0399562656, ISBN-13 9780399562655, Brand New, Free shipping in the USA 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, thseller; 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 . Wodehouse and Hergé's beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.