• Fourteen short story masterpieces selected for discussion and reflection
• Ideal for book groups and for courses in ethics and religion
• Foreword by Al Gini, author of The Importance of Being Lazy and Why It's Hard to be Good

Table of contents

Pride
A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor

Envy
Roman Fever, Edith Wharton
Smokers, Tobias Wolff

Anger
Mary Postgate, Rudyard Kipling
Hairball, Margaret Atwood

Sloth
The House with the Mezzanine, Anton Chekhov
Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason

Greed
The Rocking-Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence
The Inherited Clock, Elizabeth Bowen

Gluttony
Fat, Raymond Carver
Famine, Xu Xi

Lust
Not a Good Girl, Perri Klass
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander

Praise for The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler:

“Here they are, the deeply human faces of sin. The wonderful sort works of fiction gathered in The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler remind us that most of our problems arise in the hidden recesses of the human heart.” — Ronald M. Green, professor of ethics and human values, Dartmouth College

“It is instructive to hear what some of our greatest literary lights have thought about good and evil, right and wrong, sin and valor. If there are indeed seven deadly sins, this collection will make you think differently about them and about yourself.” —Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and author of The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People

The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler
Daniel Born, Mike Levine, and Don Whitfield, Eds.
ISBN# 978-1-880323-19-9
Softcover, 270 pages, $19.95
Published: September 2007