Hell
eBook - ePub

Hell

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hell

About this book

A young man, tired of life and love, indifferent to the people and world around him, takes up a room in a Parisienne boarding house.

Noises from the adjoining room draw his attention to a hole in the wall, and he observes its occupants through it.

He becomes obsessed with the individual episodes of human life that play out before his eyes; love, adultery, incest, childbirth, death, thievery and betrayal. Through his voyeurism, the unnamed narrator becomes an omniscient godlike character, observing the room's inhabitants in their most private and naked moments. The hole becomes a window to the very soul of humanity and the human condition.

But as with Prometheus, his godlike powers come at a cost.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Introduction to the 1918 edition
  5. Chapter I
  6. Chapter II
  7. Chapter III
  8. Chapter IV
  9. Chapter V
  10. Chapter VI
  11. Chapter VII
  12. Chapter VIII
  13. Chapter IX
  14. Chapter X
  15. Chapter XI
  16. Chapter XII
  17. Chapter XIII
  18. Chapter XIV
  19. Chapter XV
  20. Chapter XVI
  21. Chapter XVII
  22. Copyright

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