Publicado por a mentor book - new american library / the new english library limited, new york and scarborough, ontario / london, 1979
Librería: alt-saarbrücker antiquariat g.w.melling, Saarbrücken, Alemania
Paperback. Condición: Sehr gut. 1.edition. oktav paperback. gutes - sehr gutes exemplar. illustrierte-farbige-original broschur, 164 seiten, altersbedingt teils minimal lichtgebräunt / einband teils minimal berieben sonst sehr gut erhalten, innen sehr gut 400 Gramm.
Publicado por New York / Ontario / London, Mentor / New American Library / The New English Library., 1954
ISBN 10: 0451627091 ISBN 13: 9780451627094
Librería: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irlanda
11 x 18cm. 288 pages. Original softcover. Good condition with some signs of external wear and mild foxing. Annotations to text and to end leaves. [A Mentor Book]. John Ciardi, a distinguished American poet, has brilliantly rendered the Inferno into modern English, bringing it alive again with all the burning clarity and universal relevance with which the thirteenth century genius originally endowed it. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries. It confronts the most universal valuesgood and evil, free will and predestinationwhile remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times. [Mentor] Sprache: english.