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“Tartarus, Prison of the Titans” from Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, translated by Dorothea Wender (Penguin Classics, 1973). (In a volume with Elegies by Theognis). Copyright © Dorothy Wender, 1973. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
“Odysseus at Death’s Door” from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagels. Translation copyright © 1996 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“Socrates Ponders the Punishment of Souls” from The Last Days of Socrates: Euhyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo by Plato, translated by Christopher Rowe (Penguin Books, 2010). Translation copyright © Christopher Rowe, 2010. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
“Into the Realm of Shadows” from The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagels. Translation copyright © 2006 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“Dryhthelm Returns from the Dead” from Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede, translated by Scott G. Bruce. First published in The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters by Scott G. Bruce. Translation copyright © 2016 by Scott G. Bruce. Used by permission of Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“Warnings from Beyond the Grave” from Dialogue on Miracles by Caesarius, translated by Scott G. Bruce. First published in The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters by Scott G. Bruce. Translation copyright © 2016 by Scott G. Bruce. Used by permission of Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“The Hell of Treblinka” from The Road: Short Fiction and Essays by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler with Olga Mukovnikova. Copyright © by E. V. Korotkova-Grossman and F. B. Guber; translation © 2010 Robert Chandler. Used by permission of the Vasily Grossman estate c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc., New York, acting in conjunction with Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Ltd., London. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Robin Straus Agency, Inc. for permission. Reproduced by permission of Quercus Editions Limited.
“Fire in the Sky” from “Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto,” Voices of Hibashuka, Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK. http://inicom.com/hibakusha/yoshitaka.html. (Used under a Creative Commons license).
“A Sentence Worse Than Death” by William Blake, originally published on Solitary Watch (www.solitarywatch.com) and in Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd (New York and London: The New Press, 2016). Copyright © 2013 by William Blake. Used with permission of Solitary Watch.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Bruce, Scott G. (Scott Gordon), 1967– editor.
Title: The Penguin book of hell / edited by Scott G Bruce.
Description: New York: Penguin Books, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018021796 (print) | LCCN 2018022760 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524705275 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143131625 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Future life. | Hell.
Classification: LCC BL545 (ebook) | LCC BL545 .P46 2018 (print) | DDC 202/.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021796
Cover art: Tormented Souls in Purgatory. Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves. Netherlands (Utrecht), c. 1435. The Morgan Library & Museum / Art Resource NY.
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