Aldous Huxley's gripping account of the 1634 Loudun possessions — the mass "demonic possession" of an entire French convent, and the political show-trial and burning at the stake of Father Urbain Grandier, a frame-up engineered from Cardinal Richelieu down because Grandier was too insolent, too promiscuous, too dangerously alive. A landmark study of mass hysteria, sexual repression and the persecution of dissent by fear and bigotry, from the author of Brave New World.

This is the sought Penguin film tie-in edition, carrying the cover of Ken Russell's notorious 1971 film The Devils (Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed) — so heavily censored on release that it has carried a cult following ever since, which gives this edition collector pull well beyond an ordinary Huxley reprint.

Condition: Good — spine creasing, tanned pages and edge wear, with a previous owner's name to the flyleaf. A sound reading copy of an uncommon edition. Free tracked postage Australia-wide.