Author: HUTCHINSON, ROBERT J. (EDITOR)
Title: The Book of Vices : A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales
Description: New York, New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. First Printing. Hard Cover. 280 pages: 5.25 x 7.75 in.: 1.2: KB#004531: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Bringing together in one volume some of the funniest tributes to human weakness and temptation ever written, The Book Of Vices presents such tantalizing celebrations of vice as Rabelais's "In Praise of Debtors, " Margaret Cresswell's "The Jolly Glutton, " Sigmund Freud's meditation on penis envy, Benjamin Franklin's "Letter on Selecting a Mistress, " and Robert Louis Stevenson's "An Apology for Idlers. " Raning across the centuries, it includes the bawdy tales of Apuleius, Boccaccio, and William Wycherly, as well as tempting selection from such modern writers as Ogden Nash, John Updike, Fran Lebowitz, Tom Wolfe, and Lisa Alther. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket .

Keywords: Humor Vices Humor: : General