Description
The Book of Vices’ brings together some of the wittiest tributes to human weakness and temptation ever written, from Rabelais’ ‘In Praise of Debtors’, to Benjamin Franklin’s ‘On Selecting a Mistress’. Ranging across the centuries, it includes the classic bawdy tales of Boccaccio and Apuleius, as well as tempting selections from such modern writers as Ogden Nash, John Updike, Fran Lbowitz, Tom Wolfe and Lisa Alther. Paperback. Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, New York 1996
