"The Devil and Daniel Webster" is one of Bene's most famous stories. During the author’s lifetime, it was filmed and awarded an Oscar. The main character of the story, the famous speaker, lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster, comes to grips with the devil himself for the soul of a simple farmer, who exchanged it for seven productive years. On the pages of other stories, the reader will become acquainted with no less colorful characters: Napoleon, who was born thirty years earlier ; a young savage who came to the ruins of a metropolis destroyed by nuclear war; a work-obsessed doctor who, after death, cannot find a use for his talents in heaven and organizes a medical care service for those in hell...