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Envy:

The Seven Deadly Sins

Joseph Epstein

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Envy

Pride

Michael Eric Dyson

Envy

Joseph Epstein

Anger

Robert A. F. Thurman

Sloth

Wendy Wasserstein

Greed

Phyllis Tickle

Gluttony

Francine Prose

Lust

Simon Blackburn

F or over a decade, The New York Public Library and Oxford

University Press have annually invited a prominent figure in the

arts and letters to give a series of lectures on a topic of his or her

choice. Subsequently these lectures become the basis of a book

jointly published by the Library and the Press. For 2002 and 2003

the two institutions asked seven noted writers, scholars, and critics

to offer a “meditation on temptation” on one of the seven deadly

sins. Envy by Joseph Epstein is the first book from this lecture series.

Previous books from The New York Public Library/Oxford

University Press Lectures are:

The Ol d World’s New Worl d by C. Vann Woodward

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes

Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Garry Wills

Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

by Robert Heilbroner

Doing Documentary Work by Robert Coles

The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet by Freeman J. Dyson

The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski

Visions of Utopia by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp,

and Martin E. Marty