The Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1573225274 ISBN 13: 9781573225274

Casa editrice: Riverhead Books, 1996

Riassunto

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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• Editore: Riverhead Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1573225274
• ISBN 13: 9781573225274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Hutchinson Robert J.