The Book of Vices

By Robert J. Hutchinson

Book Overview

Since childhood, Rosie's life has been the stage-passing herself off as a boy playing women's roles in the somewhat disreputable theatrical troupe of actor Danny Plympton, Rosie's adoptive father. But... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157322006X
• ISBN13: 9781573220064
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.2" x 0.9" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Lust(St Augustine,Confessions ) to Gluttony(Virginia Wolf)

This ISBN 1-57322 0006 X(borrowed from the Municipal's Free Library) lent excellent reading to editor Hutchinson's The Book of Vice..with examples on the 7 deadly sins from Lust*(*St Augustine,Confessor's "Da miki castitatem et continentiam,sed noli modo" (translation:"Give me chastity and continence-but not yet") ,to quotes for Avarice,Sloth,Pride,Envy,Anger and Gluttony* (*Virginia Woolf author in "A Room of One's Own "One Cannot think well,love well,sleep well if one has not dined well" )the book gives astuteness to "catechism lessons".

Reading is never a sin

A book which is readable, fun and gives you insight to great works of literature is a good book. It won't shock you, it won't bite you but you will end up buying a few good books after you finish reading it. A good buy.