Inferno: The Divine Comedy I (Hardcover)

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. For it is only by encountering Satan, in the heart of Hell, that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Dante
Translators:	Robin Kirkpatrick
Dimensions:	204 x 137 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	449
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-119587-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Italian
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-14-119587-8
Barcode:	9780141195872

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