The History of Hell

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Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993 - 275 pages
From the beginning of recorded history people all over the world have believed in an afterlife with two principle destinations, and Hell has inspired more interest than Heaven, especially among painters and poets. This is an illustrated survey of how religious leaders, artists, writers and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell.

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About the author (1993)

ALICE K. TURNER served as the fiction editor of Playboy from 1980 to 2000.

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