The Book of Vices - Softcover
A delightful parody of The Book of Virtues frolics through the seven deadly sins with humorous, surprising passages from the most entertaining classics of the ages, from Aphra Benn's "The Willing Mistress" to Virgil's "The Salad."
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About the Author:
Robert J. Hutchinson is an award-winning writer and authorwho studied philosophy as an undergraduate, moved to Israel to learnHebrew, and earned a graduate degree in New Testament. The formermanaging editor of Hawaii Magazine, he has written travel,science and political articles for a wide variety of publications inboth North America and in Europe. Hutchinson's most recent book is The Dawn of Christianity: How God Used Simple Fishermen, Soldiers and Prostitutes to Transform the World (Thomas Nelson, 2017), a journalistic retelling of the first 20 years ofthe Jesus movement that draws upon recent discoveries in archaeology and New Testament studies. He lives with his wife and five children in asmall seaside town in the United States.
From Publishers Weekly:
Hutchinson, a former Hawaii bureau chief for the Hollywood Reporter and a self-anointed connoisseur of vice, offers this delightful little send-up of William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues. Skipping merrily through a forbidden catechism of the Seven Deadly Sins?Lust, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony, Pride, Envy and Anger?this captivating array of verse and prose moves from pre-Christian Greeks and Romans down through the Renaissance in France and England and on into the moderns. Represented are pearls from Greek historian Xenophon (c.430-354 B.C.), Dickens, Mark Twain, Woody Allen, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Flaubert, Tom Wolfe, Groucho Marx, e.e. cummings and Oscar Wilde, to mention a few. Lust is given top billing and afforded almost a third more pages than each of its six less intriguing sisters. Beginning with an erotic selection from Boccaccio's Decameron and ending with a "zipless" fantasy from Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, the anthology is a standard reference for those with the urge to brush up on the finer points of sin. Illustrations. BOMC and QPB selections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- ISBN 10 1573224014
- ISBN 13 9781573224017
- BindingPaperback
- EditorRobert J. Hutchinson
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