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"the perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante." - Bernard O'Donoghue Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil...

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Beautifully designed clothbound edition of this brilliant translation 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...

Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his...

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...

A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...

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'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.' The Guardian **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** A...

Discover Dante's original Inferno - the inspiration for Dan Brown's new novel - in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide,...

Dantes Divine Comedy: Inferno

The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante s Inferno. Only an elite group of America s first Dante...

Author: Jun'ichiro TanizakiFormat: Paperback, 128 pagesPublished: Daunt Books, United Kingdom, 2017Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home,...

New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents...

This Norton Critical Edition of Dante's masterpiece is based on Michael Palma's verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante's triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English. Richard Wilbur...

The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to...

The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes...

A revised edition of Dante's early poems, inspired by his love for Beatrice A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of the most transcendent works in all of Western literature, Purgatorio and Paradiso form the concluding canticles of Dante Alighieri's immortal epic The...

After INFERNO and PURGATORIO, here is the last cantica (part) of the Divine Comedy, in a new translation by acclaimed translator Robin Kirkpatrick Having plunged to the uttermost depths of...

'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven,...

For over half a millennium, The Divine Comedy has inspired writers from Shakespeare to Beckett. Dante's epic journey - out of the raging inferno to the gates of paradise -...

Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards...

Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question of both...

Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul...

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Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see...

Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning...

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Author: Tade Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Gripping and skilfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson's own. The setting is interstellar,...

Author: Tade Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Gripping and skilfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson's own. The setting is interstellar,...

Author: William CliveBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket clipped and has light general wear and tear, foxing along top and...

Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dantes Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieris epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven.Divine...

This is the seventh novel in David Hewson's stunning Italian crime series.Allan Prime's eyes were as large as any man's Peroni had ever seen. He looked ready to die of...

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...

This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more...

Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodLong before the age of commercial aviation transformed the world, one man dared to tame the vast and unforgiving Australian...

Lost treasure, love, and betrayal on the high seas - an extraordinary new novel by the master of mystery and suspense. Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his...

The book titled Astounding Days by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see...

A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a...