The Penguin Book of Hell

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By Scott G. Bruce *00

Published May 23, 2018

The Penguin Book of Hell (Penguin) is a collection of texts that document human beliefs about hell, ranging from the Hades of ancient Roman and Greek mythology to Christian thought and Dante’s Inferno to a modern conception of making our own hell in William Blake’s essay “A Sentence Worse that Death.”

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