{"_id":"63e73871c54d060c180bb549","title":"The Devil and Daniel Webster","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"the-devil-and-daniel-webster","words":5993,"publish_year":1936,"publish_source":"The Saturday Evening Post","publish_edition":"October 24","image":"pitchfork.jpg","image_alt":"A pitchfork lying next to a clump of hay. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","fantasy"],"blurb":"“Mr. Stone is an American citizen, and no American citizen may be forced into the service of a foreign prince. We fought England for that in ’12 and we’ll fight all hell for it again!”","description":"After hardship and sickness, the farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to the devil for good fortune. Come the day of his reckoning, he wonders if the famous lawyer Daniel Webster could help him out.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}