Gehenna - Literary References

Literary References

• John Milton, "Paradise Lost", Book I

made his Grove
The pleasant Vally of HINNOM, TOPHET thence
And black GEHENNA call'd, the Type of Hell.

• Shalom Aleichem, "The Bubble Bursts", (The Tevya Stories)

'The fires of hell,' I tell him, 'the tortures of Gehenna are too good for you.'

• Edgar Allan Poe, "Morella"

And thus, joy suddenly faded into horror, and the most beautiful became the most hideous, as Hinnom became Gehenna.

• Rudyard Kipling, "Story of Gadsby"

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, "A Princess of Mars"

...convinced me that I had but jumped from purgatory into gehenna.

• P. G. Wodehouse, "The Aunt and the Sluggard" in My Man Jeeves

To have to leave my little cottage and take a stuffy, smelly, over-heated hole of an apartment in this Heaven-forsaken, festering Gehenna.