# The Demon

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- Book: [The Demon](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-demon) ([The Demon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-demon.md))
- Authors: [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-564-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2011-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder. The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.