Excerpt from The Tempting of Father Anthony Besides, Anastasi was seventeen, and he was reading for the hundredth time a story that had produced as strong an impres sion on his mind as fairy tale ever made upon the mind of boy. He lay flat upon his stomach, elbows on the ground, face resting between his two hands. Before him was a large, flat book written in Greek, and entitled Lives of the Saints. It was opened at the Life of St. Anthony the Great, and Anastasi was in the middle of an exciting adventure between that won derful man and a whole army of demons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.