The Seven Cardinal Sins: Idolence - Envy

Les Sept pêchés capitaux (16 vols., 1847-1849), which contained stories to illustrate each of the Seven Deadly Sins, Les Mystères du peuple (1849-1856), which was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them Le Juif Errant and the Mystères de Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. Les Mystères was later plagiarized by Maurice Joly. It is rumored that Sue had a copy of the novel bound in the very skin of a woman who loved him - a most shocking example of anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Includes a biography of the Author