The Evil of the Day
The Evil of the Day is a novel by Thomas Sterling, published in 1955. The book is patterned after Ben Jonson's Elizabethan comedy Volpone, and was later adapted for the stage by playwright Frederick Knott under the title of Mr. Fox of Venice. Together, these three works formed the basis of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1967 film The Honey Pot.
First US edition
(publ. Simon & Schuster)
(publ. Simon & Schuster)
Plot introduction
As in Volpone a wealthy old man summons three old faces from his past to his villa in Venice promising to name one his heir. It departs from Johnson's work when one of his guests is murdered in the night, Fox's production abruptly switches genres from comedy to full-blown murder mystery.
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gollark: Anti³rally⁴ when?
gollark: Current historians increasingly use lots of past records to assemble a more complete picture of history, instead of just looking at things explicitly written as historical records. There's no reason to think future ones wouldn't do this even more, and we have a *lot* of data on random unimportant people, and the ability to store it basically forever (unless there's some kind of civilizational collapse, in which case it will all just disintegrate into half-remembered legends).
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gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
References
- Matthew Steggle (20 January 2011). Volpone: A critical guide. A&C Black. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-4411-7442-0.
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