Seven Deadly Sins
The New York Public Library-Oxford University Press series
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
"A series of small, cleverly illustrated, and scintillating volumes."
--Booklist
"A fine addition to anyone's collection of witty and incisive thinking."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seven Deadly Sins--Pride, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, Gluttony, and Greed--have long been favorite themes of writers and artists, philosophers and moralists. Hieronymus Bosch painted them. George Balanchine choreographed them. Dante populated the circles of hell with them. Now Oxford and the New York Public Library have brought together seven prominent writers and thinkers"among them Joseph Epstein, Wendy Wasserstein, Francine Prose, and Simon Blackburn--to pen book-length meditations on these deadliest of sins. The result is a marvelous series of books that are thought-provoking, stimulating, and frequently amusing. Illuminating both the sin and the sinner, these attractively jacketed volumes are a must-have collection. It would be a sin not to have them on your shelf.
