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Sloth. Avarice. Lust. Gluttony. Pride. Anger. Envy. While long denounced as the source of much of the evil in the world, the Seven Deadly Sins have also inspired the great classics of Western literature: Milton's Paradise Lost, all of Shakespeare's plays, and the works of Aristotle, Chaucer, Dante, Jane Austen, and Walt Whitman, to name just a few.
The Book of Vices brings together some of the wittiest tributes to human weakness and temptation ever written, from Rabelais's "In Praise of Debtors," to Benjamin Franklin's "On Selecting a Mistress," to Ben Johnson's "Hymn to the Belly." Ranging across the centuries, it includes the classic bawdy tales of Boccaccio and Apuleius, as well as tempting selections from such modern writers as Ogden Nash, John Updike, Fran Lebowitz, Tom Wolfe, and Lisa Alther.
Poking good-natured fun at the new "politics of virtue," The Book of Vices is an irresistible guide to the wild side of literature - and its tales of caution will provide edifying reading for the entire family.

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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.
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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.
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  • PublisherRiverhead Trade
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 1573225274
  • ISBN 13 9781573225274
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Number of pages288
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