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No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author's decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As...
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No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author's decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As Time Magazine described it, The Devil Rides Outside "has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious fervor." Written as a diary, the novel relates the intellectual and spiritual battles of a young American musicologist who is studying Gregorian chant in a French Benedictine monastery. Even though he is
This e-book edition scanned from the 1953 edition published by Collins, London and Glasgow
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Front Cover; The Devil Rides Outside; Copyright Page; Contents; PART ONE: The Cloister Within; PART TWO: The Devil Without; EPILOGUE / Alternate Ending; Censorship Trial; REVIEWS;