Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

Name: Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
Brand: Dante
SKU: 9780141195872
Price: 15.67 GBP
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by Dante

Title:

Author:

Dante

Series (if any):

Penguin Clothbound Classics

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

576 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141195872

EAN:

9780141195872

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

806

Dimensions (mm):

138 x 204 x 37

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

38 copies in stock

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Description

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.