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James Whitall

James Whitall (b. 1888) was an American writer and translator, author of the memoir English Years (1935) and translator of Chinese Lyrics from the Book of Jade (1918) and Pierre Hamp's People. His 1922 translation of The Reign of the Evil One (Harcourt, Brace) was the first of Ramuz's books to appear in English; this edition carries an introduction by the critic Ernest Boyd.

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Front cover of The Reign of the Evil One
The Reign of the Evil One
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

A generous stranger settles in a quiet mountain village, and all who deal with him prosper - all but the one fool who sees him clearly. Ramuz turns a simple fable into an apocalyptic fantasia of good, evil and rural dread.