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The Devils of Loudun by Huxley, Aldous is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Devils of Loudun about?
Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandieraccused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his chargewas convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxleya remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiecea compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life. Review ''Huxley has reconstructed with skill, learning and horror one of the most appalling incidents in the history of witch-hunting during its seventeenth-century heyday. The Devils of Loudun is fascinating, erudite, and instinct with intellectual vitality'' Times Literary Supplement ''Huxley's analysis of motive, his exposition of the unconscious causes of behaviour, his exposure of the perversions to which religious emotion is subject, his discursions on the witch cult, on mass hysteria, on sexual eccentricity hav
Who reads The Devils of Loudun?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 1952
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781409079507
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Adventure, History
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (1,170 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14