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The Devil's Laughter

Frank Yerby

1953317 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1953
first published
  • 1953Dial Press · 317 pages · ENG
  • 1953Dial Press · 376 pages · ENG
  • 1968Pocket Books · 386 pages · ENG
  • 1969Panther Books · 317 pages · ENG
  • 1969Heinemann · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780434890132
  • 1971Mayflower · 317 pages · ENGISBN 9780583119191
  • 1964A Giant Cardinal: Pocket Books of Canada, Ltd. · 375 pages · ENG
  • 1977Dell PublishingISBN 9780440119173

***Giant Cardinal 4th Printing:*** ***Down the street came a parade of children;*** they were beating a small keg for a drum and playing homemade flutes. And on the ends of improvised pikes, they bore the heads of three cats, still dripping blood. ***After witnessing the continuing spectacle of human heads being daily paraded through Parisian streets, the French children had become little monsters.*** ***Paris was so filled with hatred for everyone and everything that reason, itself, stood decapitated.*** So during the French Revolution, Parisians and their society sank into abject depravity. This was the society that Jean Paul Marin, who at the age of twenty, was **beaten and imprisoned by the noble class and by the age of twenty five helped create the inhumane society required for the great bloodletting of the Napoleonic wars.*--GoodReads Review*** Copy of First Giant Cardinal edition printed from LibraryThing: !alt text [1]: https://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/e3/4a/e34a9fcb6d18010596b33486b77444341587343.jpg

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