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Paradise by Anthony M. Gustave; Esolen Anthony M. (INT); Dore Anthony M. (EDT); Esolen Dante Alighieri; Esolen
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Paradise by J. G. (TRN) Dante Alighieri; Nichols
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is ...Show more
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the "Divine Comedy", Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he g ...Show more
Paradiso: the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " al ...Show more
Purgatorio: The Divine Comedy II by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
In "Purgatorio", Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transiti ...Show more
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
The enjoyment of The Divine Comedy is a continuous process, observed T.S. Eliot. It is not necessary to understand the meaning first to enjoy the poetry...our enjoyment of the poetry makes us want to understand the meaning.
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgator ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively readable lyric poem. Written in the early fourteenth century and completed in 1321, the year of Dante's death, The Divine Comedy is perhap ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " al ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator)
Category: Classics
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and ...Show more