The Devil and Daniel Webster

«The Devil and Daniel Webster» — one of the most famous stories by Bené. It was adapted into a film during the author's lifetime and received an «Oscar» award. The main character of the story, a famous orator, lawyer, and statesman Daniel Webster, engages in a battle with the devil himself for the soul of a simple farmer who had traded it for seven bountiful years. On the pages of other stories, the reader will meet equally vivid characters: one born thirty years before Napoleon; a young savage who arrives at the ruins of a megacity destroyed by nuclear war; a work-obsessed doctor who, after death, cannot find a use for his talents in heaven and organizes a medical service for those who have ended up in hell…