A Peep Into the 20th Century

A National Book Award nominee, this novel is about the first electrical execution in 1890 and the war between Edison and Westinghouse for the soul of electricity's first deliberate victim. "...Davis has written without squeamishness about a brutal case of man's imhumanity to man and because he is a beautiful writer he has conceived it as a poetic horor story."—Sumner Locke Elliott.