Just Listen Podcast: The Devil and Tom Walker
The story of Tom Walker is a variation on the legend of Faust, a l6th-century magician and astrologer who was said to have sold his soul to the devil for wisdom, money, and power.\xa0Washington Irving reinvented the tale, setting it in the 1720s in an area of New England settled by Quakers and Puritans.\xa0In Irving\u2019s comic retelling of the legend, the writer satirizes people who present a pious public image as they \u201csell their souls\u201d for money.