title: The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
author: Heinrich Zimmer
description: "This handsome volume of essays . . . is the yield of what can be called an Indologist's holiday. . . . Expertly edited by Joseph Campbell, these essays rest upon Zimmer's belief--a belief which he shares with Jung and others--that the spiritual heritage of archaic man still survives in "the deeper unconscious layers of our soul.'" (<i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>)
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  ## The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or The Miser of Zandam
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The Passing of the Third Floor Back and Other Stories - 3 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jerome Klapka Jerome
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or The Miser of Zandam” (1904) — short story by
  Jerome Klapka Jerome from collection titled “The Passing of the Third Floor
  Back: and Other Stories”.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jerome K. Jerome
  
  
  ## The Soul of Nicholas Snyders,
  
  
  ## Or The Miser of Zandam
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a wicked
  man named Nicholas Snyders. He was mean and hard and cruel, and loved but one
  thing in the world, and that was gold. And even that not for its own sake. He
  loved the power gold gave him—the power to tyrannize and to oppress, the power
  to cause suffering at his will. They said he had no soul, but there they were
  wrong. All men own—or, to speak more correctly, are owned by—a soul; and the
  soul 