THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HELL

From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us t hrough three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Ach eron/ meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands/ wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture/ and witn...[Leer más]