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.
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