The History of Hell
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2001
- Category
- Comparative Religion
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780156001373
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $32
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Description
A “lively...generously illustrated” (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
ALICE K. TURNER served as the fiction editor of Playboy from 1980 to 2000.