The Devil in the Flesh

The tragic and complicated French romance about a teenage boy who seduces the wife of a soldier during World War I and one of the most startling literary debuts of all time

A Penguin Classic

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman who is married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receives letters fr ...