Name: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
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Author: Alighieri, Dante ; Kirkpatrick, Robin ; Kirkpatrick, Robin
ISBN: 9780141195872

portada The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

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Physical Book

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Publisher

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

576

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.5 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN

0141195878

ISBN13

9780141195872

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Clothbound Classics) "

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.