Satan’s Diary

Bored with eternity, Satan decides to take on human flesh, entering the world as Henry Wondergood, an American billionaire who tours Italy expecting to amuse himself by playing at goodness and telling lies. Instead he finds humanity so practiced in deceit, greed, and cruelty that the Devil himself is swindled and outmatched at his own game. Told as the diary Satan keeps of his misadventure, Leonid Andreyev’s final novel is a bitter, playful satire on hypocrisy and the darkness in ordinary people, finished only weeks before the author’s death. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.