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... I'll disconnect the internet if I have to. Value Village always has such a wonderful selection of books. I found Dante's Inferno while I was there as well, and I spent five minutes just standing there wondering how badly I wanted it, that it should warrant me blowing so much money this month ( ...

... Bach (1/2) 10. Fantomas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre (* * *) 11. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (* * * *) 12. The Inferno by Henri Barbusse (* * 1/2) 13. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan (* * 1/2) 14. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque (* * * *) 15. To Kill ...

I hated to start a new thread for this, but thought those of you interested in Dante might find this amusing. The Inferno has been turned into a video game. Oh, dear! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30inferno.html

... to be Anna Karenina. I'm feeling up for something lengthy, and I've heard good things. Also, I'll be reading Dante's Inferno alongside it. Really looking forward to this challenge!! I'm definitely going to have to step it up though.

Which translation did you read? Dante's Inferno is very topical, so you also should read it in a volume with good notes so that you can tell who some of these people are and why Dante placed them where he did in the various levels.

4. Inferno by Dante Alighieri Pages: 207 Rating: 2/5 Oh, how dissapointed I am that I didn't enjoy this one! I had high expectations, and I was let down by something I could barely read. It's not ...

... (1st-2nd century) 5. The Aeneid–Virgil (19 B.C.) 6. Metamorphoses-Ovid (A.D. 17) 7. Beowulf (10th century) 8. Inferno (Divine Comedy)-Dante Alighieri (1308) 9. Paradiso (Divine Comedy)-Dante Alighieri (1321) 10. The Decameron-Giovanni Boccaccio (1353) 11. The Canterbury Tale ...

This morning I started Dante's Inferno. I was supposed to read it during Christmas...but I got sidetracked a little.

... February: 11. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett* She's No Angel by Leslie Kelly 12. The Inferno by Mike Carey 13. Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase 14. The Wizard Test by Hilari Bell 15. Proposition Player by Bill Willingham 16. When You R ...

... but I won't say better, since I do so love them both. Is it true, anybody know, that Dickey fashioned his narrative after Dante's Inferno (or was it The Odyssey)? I'm confused. May be common knowledge but I'm not in the know. 9> Pardon me, Mr. Durick, for missing your post. So it ...

... this was the first of...was it a trilogy? I don't know. I was confused, and I just didn't really enjoy it too much. 71. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri Read it for English class, can't say I enjoyed it particularly, though it was a better than some things I've read in class. Part of me ...

... - Charles Dickens * Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope * Dry Store Room No. 1 - Richard Fortey * Inferno - Dante Alighieri * Lord of Scoundrels - Loretta Chase * Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (and also Jane and Prudence) * Monstrous Regiment - Ter ...

... and the new American Nation Shadow Queen Mistress of the Art of Death John Adams Still Life by Louise Penny Inferno The Time Traveller's Wife The Language of Bees His Majesty's Dragon The Alexandria Link Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos Capitve Heart The Ki ...

I was first introduced to Dante in the very early 1980s by a friend who was translating and illustrating Inferno but I really got engrossed by the Divine Comedy when another friend and I started writing a List ...

... Carey Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes The Alchemist, Paul Coelho Inferno, Dante Robinson Crusoe, Daniel De Foe White Noise, Don DeLillo Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai Do Androids Dream of Ele ...

44> Paolo and Francesca were whirled around in the first circle of hell in Dante's Inferno

I just finished Dante's Inferno. (It was my first time reading that classic and I used Mandelbaum's translation and Raffa's Danteworlds as a guide.) I'm now on to Eating the Dinosaur, a collection of essays by Chuck Klosterman.

I've gone to Sweden with The True Deceiver and Tove Jansson, but I must also visit hell in The Inferno this weekend for my class on Monday.

What about the The Divine Comedy, Faerie Queen and Utopia? Are looking for literature that is more novely or do poem-y things count?

I finished (finally!) The Divine Comedy. Inferno was the best part. :) ETA: I just finished James and the Giant Peach too, which is headed for Charlie's bookshelves. What a wonderful little book!

67. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (GD 1001 Fantasy List) I'd been meaning to read this for a very long time and I'm glad I've finally managed it. I much prefer the Inferno bit to the rest of it (what exactly does that say about me?). I did not, however, like the translation much ...

... be so much more well-known than it is! I'm among they who read bunches of books at a time, so I'm currently reading The Divine Comedy, The Inimitable Jeeves, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, ...

... long time now): The Adventures of Augie March (National Book Award list) 1001 Arabian Nights (banned books list) The Divine Comedy (The Green Dragon 1001 Fantasy List) The Dark Frigate (Newbery list) John Adams (Presidential Challenge)

New books in an Old Series - Winter Study Classics - Inferno by Dante ( The group read may have helped) Mysteries - Déja Dead (I understand why this is a TV series) Biographies/History - Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation Award Winners: Mistress of the Art of Dea ...

... The Dante Club is buried somewhere in my 'to read' mountain - in my defence I wanted to read this close to my rereading Inferno and as I've just started an English MA, this may be some time. I am fascinated by your Literary Vision of Copyright seminar. I should add that I work in the UK ...

... Paton Walsh 82. The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith 83. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 84. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (trans. Dorothy L. Sayers) 85. Blest Atheist - Elizabeth Mahlou 86. Money for Nothing - PG Wodehouse 87. The Warden - Anthony Trollope 88 ...

*eyes The Inferno and Paradise Lost* Hmm... Satan? :P Nah. I think the majority of the characters in Hart's Hope are pretty nasty, including the ones that I thought were actually good, but turned out to be evil. Most especially vile is Asineth/Queen Beauty, however.

... was an interesting biography based on the works he wrote. It was interesting to see what led up to the writing of the Divine Comedy and how we have so little in his own hands. It's actually Boccaccio and others who have preserved Dante's writings. 95. This week I read Anna Karenina by ...

Finished Inferno by Patricia Melo. Very good story about drug trafficking as Kingie, an eleven year old boy, has to grow up among the poverty and violence in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

147. Inferno by Patricia Melo. Very good story about drug trafficking as Kingie, an eleven year old boy, has to grow up among the poverty and violence in Sao Paulo, Brazil

... like in there, things you think -- or hope -- people might enjoy reading. So, in a Dewey world neither The Odyssey nor The Divine Comedy would be classified as fiction in the first place because they're both (originally) verse; Odyssey would go in 881 and Dante in 851 as I recall (I'm ...

... may not "get" them is not to the point--the majority of literate people still appreciate The Odyssey and The Iliad, the Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, etc. These works have engendered progeny--some ephemeral, some which have ...

Finished The Divine Comedy by Dante and St Francis of Assisi by Chesterton. Now working on a bio of Dante and the other bio by Chesterton.

... I thought it was going to be a fluffy self-help book, but it was scriptural and deep and struck home more than once. 92. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Audio book so I am sure I zoned out during parts of it. But I got the concept and heard most of it. Very interesting stuff. Now I'm ...

... Series - Winter Study Worst of New books in an Old Series - Candy Cane Murder (not really bad) Best of Classics - Inferno by Dante Worst of Classics - Northanger Abbey (Can't believe it, Jane Austen) Best of Mysteries - Déja Dead (I understand why this is a TV series) Worst ...

... Wicked Lovely or Tithe or the like. (My knowledge on them is, sadly, limited.) As for me, earlier today I finished Inferno by Dante and I've just finished The Devil's Arithmetic. A fast but very heavy read.

... to actually produce the syllabi, I always get my first semester books incredibly late. Anyway, shopping includes: Inferno by Dante Decameron by Boccaccio The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr Ysa ...

I'm currently reading Inferno by Dante, for one of my classes (and trying to convince myself to go back to James Joyce). In between I've been reading Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder and Real World by Natsuo Kirino.

... 09/2009 G Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 16/09/2009 H Hunt for the Southern Continent by James Cook 16/09/2009 I Inferno by Patricia Melo 18/09/2009 J A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire by A.P. Chekhov 19/09/2009 K Kiss the Girls Goodbye by Lillian Harry 23/09/2009 L ...

#189 and #190--for the record, it's the team of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle who did Inferno, the same duo who brought us the fun Lucifer's Hammer and The Mote in God's Eye and a couple of others. I generally really like their joint works, although this Inferno was one I had missed. It's ...

Inferno by Larry Niven--let's see if it works this time. I want to "check it out." ETA Added to wish list! I love Dante and want to see what Niven can do with an update.

56. Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. I used to read a lot of Jerry Pournelle, so I don't know how I missed this one. Someone on LT recently read this and it sounded interesting, so I gave it a try. It was worth the effort, it was very similar to Dante's original without all the ...

... give a full report - both on the play itself, and Hugh's performance in it. And you're right - I've already sacrificed Inferno so I could just be there in the first place; perhaps the thought of the Green Fairy Book and Walden will be enough to keep me in my seat after all!

... of Autumn Twilight and I'm really liking it so far. I also got my copy of Paradiso the other day so I'm rereading Inferno.

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... read the rest of the trilogy, but this book basically seems to be little more than a character layout for the next book. Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is their second collaboration after Mote in God’s Eye, and I loved this retelling of Dante’s trip through Hades. Allen Carpe ...

... the references to it in other books. ************ Christianaudio.com has a free book every month and this month it is The Divine Comedy by Dante! I do much better with fiction in audio books than I do nonfiction (I'm never where I can take notes).

... I will be one of those wringing my hands - my budget is tapped out for August already, yet I've been pondering Dante's Inferno since the sale started...

Here's what I got when I was in Monterey (all Heritage, dates are by the copyright page inside): The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, art by William Blake, 1944, Complete. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray, art by Agnes Miller Parker, 1951, Complete. Tales of My ...

The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise by Dante Alighieri

TT: I'm currently working my way through the Divine Comedy myself (I'm nearly out of the Inferno). Like MusicMom says, it's not too hard to follow, but you do need good notes for all the references to contemporary characters. I've heard, too, that Purgatory & Paradise are a bit harder to ...

... -The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow -1001 Arabian Nights -His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

... thread when I get my CPAP and have some energy. I hope you got a good translation of Dante with good notes. I loved Inferno when I read it several years ago. I also like Purgatorio and Paradisio but imo they are not quite as intriguing as Inferno..

... e Ullyses of James Joyce (which brings to mind the Odyssey and Iliad of Homer ) and, for all its faults, The Divine Comedy of Dante. Inevitably I've missed some - many - and I have omitted here the great masterworks of religious history, the collections of works that ...

... June. Sigh. -The Adventures of Augie March -1001 Arabian Nights -Wealth of Nations -His Dark Materials -The Divine Comedy -The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales -John Adams

... POINT 2.2 THE MALTESE FALCON READ 5/17/09 2.3 A CHRISTMAS CAROL READ 12/20/08 BONUS POINT 2.4 INFERNO READ 3/8/09 BONUS POINT 2.5 A TALE OF TWO CITIES READ 8/1/09 2.6 DON QUIXOTE READ 5/23/09 read with group BONUS POINT 2.7 NORT ...

I've just seen a folio book on TV! Dante's Inferno to be precise. It was given away as a prize on BBC4's The Book Quiz: Poetry Special, to a bunch of people who I'm sure could afford it, but anyway... I got far to excited, jumping up and proclaiming "Hey, that's a folio book! AWESOME!!" It's ...

Re Inferno: Being a fan of Blake, I had to get the Inferno. I like Dali when he isn't being too commercial (in the avant garde way of much of his art post WW II), so I will probably succumb to the lure of Purgatorio down the line. I am not enraptured by the art of di Paola, so I will ...

... noticed that quite often a novels last word completely encompasses the heart of a story. A smattering of examples: The Inferno - Dante Alighieri - "stars." The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson - "love." Outlander - Diana Gabaldon - "possibility." Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita." ...

Out of the two I've read (Charles Sisson, inferno and Paradiso; John Ciardi inferno and Purgatorio) I liked John Ciardi the best. I think he was better able to communicate the gruesomeness of hell.

I read Dorothy L. Sayers for Inferno, what I believe was Robin Kirkpatrick for Purgatorio, and Sayers again for Paradiso. Sayers' work was excellent, but I did not like the Purgatorio translation, especially as it was in prose.

... the Weeds, Patrick Kilgallon 41. Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed, Lance Carbuncle 42. Dante, Dante Alighieri 43. Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami 44. A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story, Mikhail Bulgakov 45. Quicksand, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 46. Th ...

... Huck Finn 6) Charlotte's Web 7) Brideshead Revisited 8) The Crow Road 9) Hamlet 10) Romeo and Juliet 11) Divine Comedy 12) The Old Man and the Sea 13) by Mark Twain, never officially published, but mentioned in his biographies; Mark Twain 14) The American Crisis 15) ...

... (2008) 465pgs Enduring love, a love strong enough to last over centuries. This story built around themes from Dante's Inferno which I haven't read is very enjoyable. There are stories within stories here which are romantic and compelling. The story starts with a fiery car crash and the ...

... Is Important to Us; I haven't read Your Call Is (Not) Important To Us, but it seems the same. and, why not? Dante's Inferno, or The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead. haha. in all seriousness, you should try The Corporate Culture Survival Guide. Corpo ...

... for some time, since I had learned about it as a child in Catholic school. This was in a section about Dante and the Divine Comedy, when he was talking about Dante's difficulty with the idea of the unbaptized going to hell. Limbo was a later solution to this difficulty, but, apparently ...

... the question by directing me to W.S. Merwin's verse translation of the Purgatorio. I really enjoyed Pinsky's Inferno translation, but never did read Merwin's Purgatorio translation.

42. Inferno by Dante Alighieri 'Here any doubts must be dropped, any cowardice has to die now. We've arrived where I told you, where you'd see spirits in agony, losers of the intelligence's good.' My second excursion into hell this year (my first was by way of Yasutaka Tsutsui ...

APRIL SUMMARY Completed: 36. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (VII) 37. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (VII) 38. Blest Atheist - Elizabeth Mahlou (II) 39. Money for Nothing - PG Wodehouse (V) 40. The Warden - Anthony Trollope (VII) 41. Beyond Heaving Bosoms - Sarah Wendell ...

... Lyta in The Golden Compass, Virginia with His Excellency, George Washington and in Hell with Dante and Vergil in the Divine Comedy.

... my numbers are off by one, so I had to go back and renumber---bummer--especially re-doing Touchstones YUCK. 46. The Inferno Dante 47. Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris 48. The Shack Wm. P Young 49. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson - a real disappointment. 50. Here L ...

... poops not all that bad. I bumped it up a notch. And because I said some naughty words up there my next book will be Inferno by Dante Alighieri... really.

11. Inferno by Dante - A reread; before I was reading it for class and felt obligated to understand every line. This time, I was freer to skim the Florentine politics and focus more on the pilgrim's experience to answer the previous post, it's hard to compare rereads to new discoveries. I don't ...

Inferno

... the story, but not bad. 3½ out of 5. And I was glad that I held off on the second part until after I'd finished Dante's Inferno, because without that context it would have been less accessible and even more weird.

... Austen Lord of the Rings by T.R.R. Tolkien Middlemarch by George Eliot To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Inferno by Dante (The Divine Comedy) King Lear by Shakespeare Bleak House by Charles Dickens Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Favorites Li ...

... my Religion/Spirituality category last night...Dante really inspired me..and the best part was that I was able to leave the Inferno in the poetry category. Look forward to seeing your progress with the rest of the Divine Comedy.

... find recommendations for historical fiction, among the most generic recommendations for classics of the Western world like The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Actually, I was impressed to see that there were more decent recommendations than I'd expected for the translated version. ...

37. Inferno - Dante Alighieri I first tried reading this about ten years ago when I was studying medieval history, and didn't get very far. In fact, I can tell you that I got to the end of Canto 5, because that's where the margin notes in my copy finish. Reading it now, I can't imagine ...

84. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (5/5) I first tried reading this about ten years ago when I was studying medieval history, and didn't get very far. In fact, I can tell you that I got to the end of Canto 5, because that's where the margin notes in my copy finish. Reading it now, I can't ...

Hello again...alyhough this isn't a post specifically about the Inferno, I couldn't resist. This afternoon, I finished a wonderful book by Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace. My full review will be on my 999 thread. But I was so tickled when I read in her essay on Hell, about the Singapore ...

Finished The Inferno. 851.100 I could joke and say I've been to hell and back, but actually it was a very enjoyable experience. We had a group read over on the 999 challenge, exploring different translations, listening to a recording of the original Italian, and discussing the politics, religion, ...

#46 Dante's Inferno. I don't ordinarily like to just plop a link down and say "go find it" but I have already said just about everything that I can say about this work during our great online discussion that we had here on the 999 group --the thread is tututhefirst in 999 Challenge : Tutu's 2nd qtr (Abr 4, 2009, 3:27pm)

Review: Category #7 Poetry 4/9 Inferno by Dante. I was a member of a group read that just spent the past 6 weeks reading about hell. Fortunately the read was not as rigorous as the site visited by the author and his mentor, the poet Virgil. I had never read this in school, and found ...

... 1/25/09 3. A Few Quick Ones P.G. Wodehouse done 1/27/09 4. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 5/3/09 5. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Inferno 4/4/09 6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald. 5/31/09 7. Ants on the Melon Virginia H ...

... if I'm ready to start a new link yet. We'll see how I feel when I finish my last three Lenten reads next week: Dante's Inferno, Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris, and The Gospel according to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago. I may not be back until Easter, lots going on, but I hope East ...

... of St. Augustine and The Imitation of Christ (library book) -His Dark Materials (read-aloud-with-husband book) -The Divine Comedy (The Green Dragon 1001 Fantasy List) -Little Women (NEH Timeless Classics list) -The Story of Mankind (Newbery Award list) -His Excellency: George ...

... (Three Pines Mystery) Lethal Legacy Baltimore Blues Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation   Inferno

... POINT 2.2 THE MALTESE FALCON READ 5/17/09 2.3 A CHRISTMAS CAROL READ 12/20/08 BONUS POINT 2.4 INFERNO READ 3/8/09 BONUS POINT 2.5 The Three Musketeers 2.6 DON QUIXOTE READ 5/23/09 read with group BONUS POINT 2.7 NORTHANGER ABBEY READ ...

... /81. New Books in an old Series--READ 5 OUT OF 9 Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein CLASSICS--READ 4 OUT OF 9 Inferno by Dante Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Mysteries--READ 4 OUT OF 9 Shop Til You Drop by Elaine Viets History/Biographies--READ 6 OUT OF 9 Jame ...

... about it in the beginning, but it seems to be improving. I've been holding back on it a little until I've finished Dante's Inferno, having been told that there are a lot of allusions to the Inferno in The Gargoyle, and I'm looking forward to picking it up again.

... (II) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (III) War and Peace - Tolstoy (VII) Great Expectations - Dickens (VII) Inferno - Dante (VII) The Sweetheart Season - Karen Joy Fowler (IX) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson (IX)

... going on, so I can re-read a book or series after a few years and it's all new again :) I see a lot of mention of the Divine Comedy. I recently read Inferno and Escape from Hell which were somehow based on the first part of the Divine Comedy. I quite enjoyed those, they had that ...

Oddly, I liked The Divine Comedy when I read it in college. We had to read the whole cycle-Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise. Of course, I like GWTW, Shakespeare, and Dickens, so I'm a bit odd. There were two books in jr. high and high school that I actually threw in the trash. One was some sort of ...

Currently reading Inferno and The Professor by Charlotte Brontë I hope I will finish both this week.

... owalter 15.Pleasure Slave Gena Showalter 16.The Vampire's Bride Gena Showalter 17.All That GlittersLinda Howard 18.Inferno Linda Howard 20.Fire Song Catherine Coulter 21.Sun Kissed Catherine Anderson 22.Son of the Morning Linda Howard 23.Sunlight Moonlight Amanda Ashley 24. ...

... owalter 15.Pleasure Slave Gena Showalter 16.The Vampire's Bride Gena Showalter 17.All That GlittersLinda Howard 18.Inferno Linda Howard 20.Fire Song Catherine Coulter 21.Sun Kissed Catherine Anderson 22.Son of the Morning Linda Howard 23.Sunlight Moonlight Amanda Ashley 24. ...

... now: The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir, Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris, Mere christianity by C.S. Lewis, Dante's Inferno, and The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, so this piece just struck me as being almost a fairy tale.

... ills of today could certainly be put right on top of what he is writing. I am deciding that while I can understand the Inferno by reading various notes and commentaries, I'm not going not having a full appreciation of the greatness of this piece until I have a more in depth understanding of ...

I finished Beowulf (the Seamus Heaney translation - very good), and I'm starting The Divine Comedy.

Still reading Inferno and Keskiajan julmuus by Hannele Klemettilä. Also started Drown by Junot Diaz yesterday and will probably finish it today.

I just finished Beowulf tonight, and I'm off to start The Divine Comedy.

I finished Beowulf. I can't believe I'd never read this before. Now on to The Divine Comedy!

... an entire life to studying Dante (sorta like Shakespearean scholars). I think I'll be ready to say "Basta!" when I get Inferno done, and let it rest awhile, but my appetite has been whetted for Purgatorio and Paradiso for future TBRs.

Shanra, it's quite lovely, and they had a slew of them - The Divine Comedy, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, and many others. If I have to shop big bookstore, I much prefer Borders, but ...

Shanra, it's quite beautiful, and they had a slew of them - The Divine Comedy, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, and many others. If I have to shop big bookstore, I much prefer Borders, ...

... read I believe (2006 and 2007). But it's been awhile since I read them. Books read: 18/81 = 22.222% Up next: Inferno by Dante Alighieri - DailyLit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald - DailyLit A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Katherine by Anya ...

... since I read them. Book 7/50 = 14% completed Pages: 273 Total pages read in this year: 2,639 Up next: Inferno by Dante Alighieri - DailyLit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald - DailyLit A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Katherine by Anya ...

I finished The Inferno Pinsky translation as well as audio version and James Madison: (The American Presidents Series) now I'm starting The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict

#43 THE INFERNO Author: Dante Alighieri Read: Feb 25 - Mar 8 Category: Classics Pages: 354 (three translations) I read this book/Poem because I had always heard about it but had never read it. So I challenged myself to read this book. I chose the Pinsky translation for my ...

#43 THE INFERNO Author: Dante Alighieri Read: Feb 25 - Mar 8 Category: Classics Pages: 354 (three translations) I read this book/Poem because I had always heard about it but had never read it. So I challenged myself to read this book. I chose the Pinsky translation for my ...

#34 THE INFERNO Author: Dante Alighieri Read: Feb 25 - Mar 8 Category: Classics Pages: 354 (three translations) I read this book/Poem because I had always heard about it but had never read it. So I challenged myself to read this book. I chose the Pinsky translation for my ...

i recently read The Dante Club which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

i recently read The Dante Club which is a nifty little book that incorporates a lot of Inferno references. I think it's sorta along the lines of a DaVinci Code style book, but it did keep me entertained.

84. Dante's Inferno I was doing this as a group read, but got over zealous and finished it last night, hehe. I used the John Ciardi translation, and found it much less intimidating than I originally thought. I do realize that now, I have to read Ovid's Metamporhosis.

Currently reading Dante´s Inferno, Thanks for the memories by Cecelia Ahern and Keskiajan julmuus by Hannele Klemettilä. Three books at the same time is a lot to me but they are all so different so that isn´t a problem.

... be easy to read quickly, or I find themes from something I read and meander off from there. For example, I am reading The Inferno, and something about it prompted me to look up The Decameron. It looks interesting, and I have a copy, so that is going to move up on the TBR pile. There ...

... so far. I started Love and Other Natural Disasters last night. Still working on The Brothers Karamazov, Inferno (both are for group reads), as well as The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive-Agressive Behavior in Families, Schools, and Workplaces, and The Alexander Ciphe ...

On my currently reading list of the moment, I have Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, The Alexander Cipher, Love and Other Natural Disasters and The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive-Aggressive Behaviour in Families, Schools and Workplaces. This past week I finished Land of Marvels ...

I must have the same ADD as sister tutu. I am currently reading: The Inferno Pinsky translation as well as audio version Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs James Madison: (The American Presidents Series)

... this blog which did a whole lenten series last year on the Inferno. It looked really good. So if anybody finds a link that will work on a Windows Media Player, or MP3 format file, please let me know. ETA : The Danteworlds site ...

... have not started my own thread, but this was on my mind and I thought I would ask this group for thoughts. I am reading The Inferno--prompted by others. I have never read any medieval literature that I can remember, and this seemed fairly accessible. I find the story as story and the story ...

... LT, I can really see it. I never read just one book at a time. I always have at least 3 going. Early March reads are Inferno by Dante Being Catholic Now Kerry Kennedy Sarah Marek halter - on audio.

Dante's Inferno and Still Life by Louise Penny

... good group, and I love the interaction, but just don't think I can handle more than my local Read Around Maine, and Dante's Inferno which we are doing as a group read on the 999. Good luck to all and enjoy. TT--about when will you post the 3rd book so I can leave some wiggle room in my ...

... it in the next couple of days. Beginning Wednesday, I will have to devote my "serious" reading time to the group read of The Inferno.

... particular order. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman The Paideia Program by Mortimer Adler Inferno by Dante Alighieri Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Paradiso by Dante Alighieri The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Biblioholism: The Literary A ...

... For the Lenten Read (if I get thru them, it will make the bonus category the first completed one!) in addition to Dante's Inferno I have stacked up Being Catholic Now by Kerry Kennedy. I started this today and I already know I'm going to love it! Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton

... by Agatha Christie The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

... Sixpence House and Great Souls: --my current audio--, I'm going to be pretty involved with our group read for Dante's Inferno over on the 999 Challenge and plan to spend the rest of Lent reading from my Bonus category: Religion. I decided not to give up coffee and chocolate for Lent, just ...

... it. Once I finish Shades of Water, Sixpence House and Great Souls: --my current audio, I will roll in the Dante's Inferno and the rest of the Religion category--I decided not to give up coffee and chocolate for Lent, just read my bonus category, and get blessed that way.

... and Workplaces and Land of Marvels. I'm progressing fairly well with The Brothers Karamazov, and will dive into Inferno for that reading group in the next week. The Alexander Cipher is suffering due to not being portable, tho. :( That's the problem with ebooks.

... Wish I had. I have never read any Lovecraft yet, though I do now own a few. I have never read Dante, though I have inferno now, so i can. hmm. I have not yet read any Cherryh and precious little LeGuin. I'll get around to them.

... recently. I think it is one of the most accessible translations--his poetry reads very smoothly (imo). Of the 3 sections, Inferno is the most interesting--probably because Dante gets a chance to "skewer" so many people in it. He enjoyed "getting his own back." ;-) Have you done your ...

Carolyn, I'm only doing the Inferno but if I like it I may keep going. I have the John Ciardi translations, and, to be honest, I haven't looked at it yet. I'm trying to finish Harry up before I even think about Dante!

... books on your lists I didn't know about. I'm looking forward to your comments about Dante--are you going to do just Inferno or the entire trilogy? Which translation are you going to be reading? Dante's Divine Comedy is one of my favorite classics. I hope you enjoy it. And i hope ...

Ah, Hell, and welcome to Purgatory. Dante needs some help, big time. http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=alighieridante I did quite a bit of combining, but then discovered that quite a bit of separating will be needed, too. A few Divine Comedy are in Inferno, Purgatorio in Pari ...

... Bloomsday Book -- Harry Blamires The Catechism of the Catholic Church of Rome Compact Oxford English Dictionary The Divine Comedy -- Dante Alighieri Hamlet -- William Shakespeare James Joyce -- Richard Ellmann James Joyce's Ulysses -- Stuart Gilbert James Jo ...

The Italian poet that instantly comes to mind is Dante Alighieri. The first year I studied Italian, I read Inferno –- sloooowly, with a trusty dictionary close at hand -- and it was bliss. That said, perhaps you're looking for something less epic, or a little more contemporary? If that' ...

... up. The Serpent Bride by Sara Douglass don't know for sure if I'll get to this book or not but who knows and The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri For the 999 challenge that Tutu sent me to read in. and so far this is all.. only 44 books checked out.. :P

... will start a pile of 'lenten' reading (I may even change categories and put them all together) to do along with our Dante' Inferno read: One Man's Meat by E.B. White for the Read Around Maine group our local paper is having online. Sixpence House - Paul Collins Sea Fever - Andrea Barr ...

... to read the notes but have now checked them and I think they'll be useful when I re-read along with the group starting the Inferno on Feb. 25th. # 27 - crazy4reading - Thanks! I also prefer to read the book before seeing the movie. Occasionally I like a movie so much and then find out ...

... the more we prepare, the more we'll probably enjoy the journey. Other important texts for preparation: The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare and who knows what all else Joyce alludes to!

There's a group starting Dante's Inferno Feb. 25. Maybe that's one to consider for your classics category?

Translations I'm planning to look at two different translations: Inferno First Book of the Divine Comedy translated by Allen Mandelbaum. This has English and original Italian on facing pages and lucious illustration by Barry Moser. not sure the touchstone's working so

Hi, I read Inferno and Purgatorio last year, and for me at least, it did take some extra concentration. I also read all the notes because there were so many references to people and events from the time of the writing. I still need to read Paradiso! Have a great day! --BJ

... find yourself needing to read it instead of your War and Peace! Going to focus on Mistress of Husaby next, and dig out Inferno to get ready for a group read. ET fix touchstone.

... out how to add authors to my favorites as well as how to edit tags and add reviews. #112- I'm not planning to read Dante's Inferno until this summer, if I do. I'm still not sure about that and I have such a list going. I want to get through 10 presidential biographies/autobiographies ...

... read Dante. So Theonlyme, LisaCurcio, and anyone else, we have a group over on the 999challenge who are planning to read The Inferno for Lent! Ash Wednesday is Feb 25th, so we'll start then. I've been debating about whether to start a new group, or just do a thread, (we actually have one ...

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... sold as a separate portfolio, not part of the book proper). I was also very impressed by the two Dante fine editions - Inferno with Blake's illustrations, and Purgatorio with Dali's ones. Hope to get these one day. Well, that's it. I didn't buy Folio 60 in the end, as, thought it's ...

... as Slumdog Millionaire) by Vikas Swarup Best Poetry: The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe Best Translation: Dante's The Divine Comedy translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'll keep an eye out for Kirkpatrick's translation and Dante in English. I'm sure both will turn up eventually in the used book stores as the penguin and signet classics are common at the local college for texts and rarely bought back so they find themselves to tag sales and the book barn. #93 ...

>90 (and >83 and >84): I read the Sinclair parallel-text translation (OUP) as a chunk of the Inferno was my set text for my foreign-lit paper at uni. I think it's meant to be a fairly faithful 'literal' translation, but you do miss the music of the poetry (I didn't because I had to read and ...

#88- it seems a couple have read Dante's Inferno and loved it but that perhaps its about finding the right edition? My brother has a copy but its rather old and just looking at the pages is daunting. Does anyone have any suggestions on which edition to attempt and where one might find it?

... Austen; but it's probably the one I consider funniest of the ones I've read. If that makes sense? >83 & 84, I read The Inferno last year and loved it. It can be difficult if you're trying to do it in a short amount of time (like a lot of classics, I found it to be pretty intense as far ...

... *love* the Dore illustrations for Dante. He did Don Quixote, Orlando Furioso and others that I'm forgetting now too. The Inferno is on my list for this year somewhere too. Yesterday I started reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius. I've read bits of it before in Latin, but never the ...

I second the question about Dante's Inferno. I have a copy as one of those leatherbound libraries of classics that I got one book at a time, but have always felt daunted by the task of reading it.

... want to achieve 75 books so I'm not sure how well so many really long classics will work out. Has anyone ever attempted Dante's Inferno? *edited for spelling errors*

I've started Bitter Sweets. The Divine Comedy is on hold for awhile until things settle down in this household!

My toughest is definitely going to be the classics. I have Dante's Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote,Dumas' Three Musketeers, Vanity Fair, Emma by Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I've tried all of them before except for the Infe ...

... Cindy Pon (MG/YA, 3, #75) 51. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (adult transnational, 5, #76) 52. Inferno by Robin Stevenson (YA, 2, #76) 53. The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans (historical romance, 3.5, #76) 54. Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Mo ...

5. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Mark Musa translation)

Classics 1.The Professor by Charlotte Bronte read (Apr 1st) 2. Inferno by Dante Alighieri read (Apr 1st) 3. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri read (May 23rd) 4.All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (May 23rd) 5. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri read (June 22nd) ...

... was really sweet concerning a man who loved music and wanted to express his joy in it. The final 999 book this week is Inferno by Dante. I've decided to record each of the 3 parts of the Divine Comedy separately as I'm not certain when I'll be purchasing the others. I'll be classing them ...

... 2008 due to skipping dinner one night out of seven. ..sounds like a win either way to me.. Anyway, to business. 7. Inferno - Dante Aligheri (292pp) I've decided to list the 3 parts of The Divine Comedy separately as I'm not really certain when I'll be reading the other parts as I ...

another week, another update. 7. Inferno - Dante Aligheri (292pp) 8. Utopia - Thomas More (135pp) 9. Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl (762pp) 10. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan (375pp) 11. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks (385pp)

Miscellaneous Fiction (non ghosty) 1. Siddhartha-completed 1/9/09 2. The Hobbit -completed 1/22/09 3. Dante's Inferno -completed 3/6/09 4. Plum Spooky -completed 1/29/09 5. Fathers and Sons -completed 3/26/09 6. Plum Lucky -completed 1/14/09 7. Thinner -completed 1/10/09 8. Di ...

Ah, this is just poetic. I will like the Purgatorio better than the Inferno, and the Paradiso better than either. Wonder how universal that is.

... Youth by Xiaolu Guo Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics by Jennifer Baumgardner The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

I think you'll be ok--- more likely The Gargoyle will inspire you to reread The Inferno, lol. I really want to but I don't think I have the time either, especially with classes starting.

... the information! I am looking forward to reading it even more now. It has probably been 5 years or so since I last read The Inferno - I am wondering if I should do a re-read before reading The Gargoyle although I do not think I have the time at present. Oh, well.

... me immediately and it was one of those that I literally could not put down once I started reading. I had just recently read The Inferno which definitely helped--- there's a lot of references to Dante. It also left me wanting to learn more about medieval German mysticism. I'd definitely recommend ...

#10, 12, 13, 29 - I've just about finished The Inferno - I'm in the middle of the end notes at present on my 2nd read through and I'm trying to decide whether I want a break or not before going onto Purgatorio - I really want to get them finished this year as well so it's basically just ...

Western Canon 1. Inferno - Dante Aligheri -READ 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... by Louisa May Alcott Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Inferno by Dante Morvern Callar by Alan Warner Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs On the Road by Jack Kerouac Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Atonement by Ian ...

... couldn't stick the landing and even it out to 80 . . . . Among the 79, though, was some 'heavy liftin' as I say: The Divine Comedy by Dante The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Aeneid by Virgil The entire Lonesome Dove series A good year, overall!

... Manual My list beyond that is Kindred Getting Started Knitting Socks My Name is Red The Screwtape Letters The Divine Comedy Tracking Trash The Robber Bride The Knitters Book of Yarn The Mysts of Avalon American Gods Don Quixote A Distant Mirror A Mercy ...

# 10, 12, 13 --- So far I've managed only 28 pages of Inferno. It's slow going but I'm finding the punctuation very important for understanding and not getting lost in the rhythm! Since it's only 145 pages, including pictures, I'm going to try and push through to the end tonight. It will help ...

I never finished The Inferno last year and I can't wait to get to it this year (I'm a teacher so I'll wait until Spring Break or summer vacation so I can give it my full attention). Bacchante- The Illuminator is a great book, I just reread it a few weeks ago and gave both that book and it's ...

... 06/10/09 Hi-larious. I really enjoyed this book, especially his constant mocking of other ideologies. 8. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri *Finished 06/12/09 I started reading it last year, but had to stop because I had something else going on. Took me a while to ...

... done 3. The Aeneid by Virgil - done 4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 5. Paradise Lost by John Milton 6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri - done 7. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand - done 8. The Iliad by Homer - done 9. Metamorphoses by Ovid - done 8. Growth ...

... early next year, with a view to taking on The Death of Virgil afterwards. I have previously dipped into both Dante's Inferno and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and would like to read them completely. Other "big books" on my shelves include The Count of Monte Cristo, Jacinta and Fortunata ...

... Nietzsche Dune - Frank Herbert Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Rob Bryanton The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett The Stranger - Albert Camus Amerika - Franz Kafka Den of Thiev ...

... -2009 3. Wuthering Heights read 9-31-2009 Left over from last year- 4. The Count of Monte Cristo read 8-16-2009 5. Divine Comedy 6. The Last Enchantment Didn't know I owned- 7. The Three Musketeers read 10-05-2009 8. Don Quioxte read 1-11-2009 9. Great Expectations read 10 ...

... 2009 823.900 God is an Englishman Delderfield, R. L. long ago 843.912 Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene 12/08 851.100 Inferno Dante 4/09 853.914 Shape of Water Camilleri, Andrea 2/09 859.320 Little Fingers Filip Florian 7/09 863.000 Daughter of Fortune Allende, Elizabeth7/05 869.3 ...

Reading Shattered by Dick Francis and listening to my first audio book The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

850-874 850 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romantic ~ 851 Italian Poetry ~(851.1) Inferno by Dante Alighieri ~(851/.1) Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri 852 Italian Drama 853 Italian Fiction ~(853.912) The Leopard by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Wrong Touchstone) 854-874 This ...

... by Joseph Conrad The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

1. Classic Lit: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Persuasion by Jane Austen Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Narziz und Goldmumd by Herman Hesse Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck De Pro ...

... Orwell (7/5/09) 4. Dr Thorne - Anthony Trollope (25/5/09) 5. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Kerome (31/5/09) 6. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (Group Read, started 25/2/09, finished 6/4/09) 7. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1-2/5/09) 8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (fin ...

... EYRE READ 3/31/09 2.2 The Maltese Falcon 2.3 A CHRISTMAS CAROL READ 12/20/08 BONUS POINT 2.4 INFERNO READ 3/8/09 BONUS POINT 2.5 The Three Musketeers 2.6 Don Quixote 2.7 NORTHANGER ABBEY READ 1/14/09 2.8 Black Beauty 2.9 The Innoce ...

... y@15: When avaland and I were in Italy a couple of years ago, one of the hotels had a poster in the lobby that had all of Inferno on a single page - in Italian of course. Pretty neat.

After yet another turn at pawing through Sandydog1's library I'm going to grab The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, because I should have read it long ago!!!!! It's been in my TBR for quite a while, so it's time to dig it up!!!!

... reading two in the same category back to back. I know there are several who said they wanted to do a group read of Dante's Inferno and we'll probably do that in Feb or March, but I think I'm going to start with a short volume of poetry, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly a beautiful little ...

Still savoring my read of John D. Sinclair's translation of Dante's Inferno. Also started Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake.

... were wonderful, too. I also finished the Poetry category with Purgatorio by Dante. I had never read beyond Inferno before, so I especially wanted to read this book. I enjoyed it immensely and also liked the illustrations for this book, too. I need to stay on task to finish ...

... enjoyed Dante Club--it has its shortcomings but I found it entertaining and I liked the ways the plot used elements of Inferno for the crimes. But, then I'm a huge Dante fan. As a result of reading the book I bought a beautiful illustrated edition of Longfellow's translation on a ...

... the right amounts of chess, history, and looking ahead. Starting John D. Sinclair's prose translation of Dante's Inferno tonight. The facing page is in the original Italian and Sinclair provides a commentary @ the end of each canto. I'm also going to use A Modern Reader's Guide To D ...

... don't really know as much as I should about translators. I picked it for the Salvador Dali illustrations. :) I just read Inferno. I am not sure which translation that was, but I think maybe the same (although different illustrator). I read all the notes in the back to pick up the parts I ...

Hi everyone, thanks for your suggestions....I guess I will plan to start with the Inferno. Being a good Catholic girl, (ha ha) I think I might put this in the queue to read during Lent. The translation I have is the Mandelbaum, three volume with pen & wash drawings by Barry Moser. This is a ...

I agree--Inferno is far more 'fun' to read and it is also the first one. I read them all several years ago in the John Ciardi translation. I highly recommend it--I think it reads much more easily than the Mandelbaum translation which I've also read. I just recently found on a sale table at B&N ...

... think I've bitten off quite a bit of really serious reading with some of my categories. I love Dante--I hope you read Inferno before Purgatorio. Which translation are you using. I have four but have only read two of them--I liked Ciardi really well and it has been released again. I ...

Inferno is by far the best one. There's a reason that it's the one people usually read! Like Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, hell is just more fun to read about than heaven -- all full of praise singing and happiness.

I just reread Inferno and at the end it leads into Purgatorio. Today I started Purgatorio. I am guessing that at the end it will lead into Paradiso. I don't have a copy of Paradiso yet. I do want to read that, too. Although it does begin with Inferno, I do think that you can probably ...

... by Jane Austen 3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia 4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri ---Inferno - JAN. 2---*** 6. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 8. 9.

... Robert Bly 5. Short And Tall Tales:Moose County Legends Lillian Braun 6. Letters of a Nation Carroll, Andrew, ed. 7. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Inferno 8. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 9. The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets Bill Moyers billiejean in 888 Challenge : Billiejean's 888 (Oct 29, 2008, 7:53pm)

... it is looking better. Both books were epic poetry chosen for my October spooky theme read. The first book was Dante's Inferno, which I had not read in about 30 years. I read the notes to help me catch all the allusions. I am also planning to read his Purgatorio soon. The next one was ...

... Tale by Diane Setterfield. I could not put this book down! It is a Gothic suspense novel and I loved it. 57. Inferno by Dante. Another spooky read in honor of October. I had not remembered how much of this reflected what was going on in Dante's time in Italy. The notes ...

OC: Agamemnon EX: Gulag Archipelago Vol. 3, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Divine Comedy, Horseman, Pass By, Little Women

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer **** by Peter Süskind 10/18/08 The Divine Comedy **½ by Dante Alighieri 10/19/08 Horseman, Pass By *** by Larry McMurtry 10/19/08

friends of the library book sale at the university: Gladstone by Roy Jenkins The Inferno from Dent, with facing Italian and English Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Biographia Literaria by Coleridge Poetry and Prose of William Blake Nonsense Books by Edward ...

Finally, I finished another book. This time I read Dante's Inferno. I haven't read this in many years -- like 30! I had forgotten just how many allusions there were in it, so I had to read the notes, too. My copy has great illustrations, as well. I have read 8 books and have 4 more to go. I ...

... the chronicle of the Kingkiller in The Name of the Wind. I am also descending through the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno, which I wanted to read for the spooky Halloween season. Plus, I am on Earth in Norway with Kristin Lavransdatter. I am enjoying all three! --BJ

... at college (Just for the Hell of It: The Seven Deadly Sins in Music and Literature) we were required to read Inferno and Purgatorio. Paradiso apparently was too boring comparatively according to my professor--not to mention that it wasn't quite on topic. I've went ahead and ...

... of Wings by Richard Bach 15. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Then for the Classics I'm planning on: 16. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri 17. Paradise Lost by John Milton 18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer 19. The Odyssy by Homer 20. The ...

... Gaping holes in my reading King Lear Mrs. Dalloway* (also counts for fiction by women) The Canterbury Tales Inferno The Aeneid Gulliver's Travels Paradise Lost The Iliad Feminism The Second Sex Sister Outsider The Dialectic of Sex Ain't I a Woman The F ...

... Woodbrook or Get Shorty. If I don't start until October, then I will go with one of my October Theme Read books -- Inferno, or Frankenstein. So many choices. --BJ

I just saw the great discussion about the Iliad and I thought I'd ask my question about The Divine Comedy. It seems there are just dozens of translations out there. Can anyone recommend a great translation of Dante?

I've read it and found it amazing! Unique and marvelous, profound and clever.... TPBM did not like Inferno

... omnibus 4. And we stopped at the second hand store in Holbrook on the way back from Albury on friday, with Candide, Inferno, They Fly at Ciron and something else I can't remember all found their way into my possession. I also picked up Conrad's Fate from the Border's booksale ...

... Woodbrook or The Great Gatsby which is from the second list. I am planning a theme read for October and will defer Inferno, Beloved, Frankenstein, Dracula, and Faust until then. Well, the touchstones quit loading at the end. I may have to come back later and try again! I ...

... really know what to expect from this book - LT recommendations and a really cool cover. I was totally blown away by the Inferno tie-in. History, romance, religion, a little magical realism, this book has everything I look for in a book. It probably will be a few days before I can start ...

I hope you weren't thinking The Divine Comedy is funny, too.

... Conrad Secrets of Surrender by Madeline Hunter The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

... Poetry - The Making of a Poem 823 English Fiction - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 851 Italian Poetry - The Inferno 861 Spanish Poetry - Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon 891 East Indo-European and Celtic - War and Peace 973 General History of North America; United S ...

... and his work shows it. "Ash Wednesday" is also great. However, if you could donate only one work, it must be The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The new Modern Library translation of Anthony Esolen is quite good and contains Gustave Doré's accompanying illustrations. There ...

... Sequels {complete} 1. The Complete Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 3. A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter by John Galsworthy 4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 5. The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel 6. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's G ...

... (Read) 2. Woodbrook (Read) 3. The Daughter of Time (Read) 4. Faust (Read) 5. Lord of the Flies (Read) 6. Inferno (Read) 7. Purgatorio (Read) 8. Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Read) 9. Apostolate of Holy Motherhood (Read) 10. Age of Innocence 11. The Complet ...

I don't see the problem with entering Dante's Divine Comedy as a series myself. Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise are just so widely available as separate books, what's the harm of listing them all together as a series? I guess on series I just don't see the big problem with having a ...

... Hills by Gloria Naylor Naylor's prose is always beautiful, at least in my experience. If you've read Dante's Inferno, you'll see some extra levels to this work, but it's worth reading regardless. She manages unique realistic characters that come together to give not only a ...

Wow, this is like a contest. I "beat" rdurick and am hanging out with Venus! I read Dante a while back so I forget. Am I bad enough to be doing head-stands in the poo soup?

Original Categories: Doctor Thorne, Therese Raquin, Utopia, A Modern Comedy, Steppenwolf, The Counterlife Extra Credit: The Wild Geese

... and Experience by William Blake. 5. The Complete Poems for Christopher Robin by A. A. Milne (No Touchstone) 6. Inferno by Dante. 7. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 8. Purgatorio by Dante. I guess this category is going ok. The first book is quite a stretch ...

... and read it, if for no other reason than for its details of medieval and Renaissance life. It was written between the Divine Comedy and the Canterbury Tales, immediately after the Black Plague. An important piece of the Western literature puzzle.

... Strangely enough, the one I most want to revisit is The Tenth Circle which has nothing to do with this - more to do with Dante's Inferno which I've never read (it's on the list for next year....although...down girl!!!) I still find his characterisation of the devil the most interesting, just ...

... I finished those two, my TBR pile had grown by at least 15 books. Oh, and The Dante Club, which inspired me to pick up The Divine Comedy again and subsequently took up about 6 months of reading time.

God in Dante's Hell (Inferno).

#129 I also think The Divine Comedy is too complicated. But it IS Italian. And Don Quixote IS Spanish. That's all I meant to say in message 126. Well, to me it doesn't mean very much if there are 5 or 7 books on the poll. And I'll not vote for Wives and Daughters or Far from the Madding C ...

I would never propose The Divine Comedy, kjell, it is way too complicated. If I had to propose an Italian classic, I would go for The Betrothed.

... Myself, I would fully expect to be offered books whose position I opposed. The if you liked Paradiso, you will like Inferno problem is fundamental.

... by Walter Mosley 7. Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon 8. Demonata 1 - Lord Loss by Darren Shan 9. The View From Hell by John Shirley 10. Sick: An Anthology of Illness by John Lawson 11. Reign Of The Dead by Len Barnhart 12. Undead And Uneasy by MaryJanice Dav ...

... a The Oedipus Trilogy The Art of War The Bhagavad Ghita The Aeneid The Pillow Book Beowulf The Rubaiyat The Divine Comedy The Caterbury Tales The Prince Don Quixote Pilgrim's Progress Second Treatise of Government The Narrow Road to the Deep North Robinson ...

... renditions, especially those who know both languages. I am looking to get hold of a more recent translation of Dante's Inferno in particular. I look forward to more posts!

The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

... Well, yeah. It is a crock of $hit. I don't believe in hell! But it's funny anyway. And um, it's based on a book! Yeah! Inferno by Dante. So NYAH!

27. The Inferno - Dante Alighieri : (I read the Longfellow translation.) This is the first of two focus books for the AP English entrance exam. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would!! Being something written so long ago I thought it might be a bit dry, but it isn't at all. I found it to ...

A book that recently (between this and last year) changed my literary experience was Dante's The Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Steinbeck's East of Eden.

... Okay, John Milton wrote Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained they are epic poems in the tradition of Dantes Inferno series. The crux is as suge said, that Satan was a former angel who rebelled against God and is cast from heaven. There are amazing battle scenes (think the Illia ...

... The Purgatorio has been published, and I seem to have read that the Paradiso was in the works. That would leave Inferno, which has been available for a while in the version illustrated by William Blake. I sort of hope that future limited editions avoid the classics (by that I mean ...

... time frame). Both feel anxiety and depression at growing old and deal with existential themes. also, Prufrock fits with Dante's Inferno , which we read excerpts from earlier in the year. juv3nal-- does the "you" in the poem, then, always represent the implied reader? i kind of felt ...

... and that Muhammed was the Bishop of Antioch or someplace like that. This is why he is counted among the schismatics in the Inferno. In Islam, Jesus is counted as a prophet, who will return to pass judgement at the end of the world. So look busy.

Now'days I get excitable and try to discuss Milton's Paradise Lost or Dante's Inferno with my coworkers. They give me weird looks. I've learned to keep those thoughts in my head (mostly). Now I inflict it on them in other ways (this was actually for work...): http://www.guidespot.com/guides/vie ...

Paradise Lost by John Milton Inferno by Dante Alighieri Seriously. I've read these so many times they're going to pieces. Even wrote modern-day guides relating to them, check it out! http://www.guidespot.com/guides/view/cdrEVeeX5iRzJ7_wLQmp0c

... the clear winner). Middlemarch – 8 Forsyte Saga – 7 Wives and Daughters – 7 The Moonstone – 5 The Divine Comedy – 2 Ivanhoe – 2 The Tenderness of Wolves – 2 Age of Innocence – 1 Anna Karenina – 1 The Book Thief – 1 The Diary of a Nobody ...

... I am not yet a member of this group, but I would like to join when you move on to the next book. My vote would be for The Divine Comedy. I tried it many years ago, and then got lost in all the parts I didn't understand. Does anyone know when you will start the next book?

WOW, Damiella!!!!! The Divine Comedy is certainly NOT a book you can sit down and read like you would read The Forsyte Saga, for example. You deserve a lot of credit for trying to tackle such a complicated task! :-))

... year & I'd tackle one of them instead. Another one that I've been having trouble getting through by myself though is The Divine Comedy - I'm going to give it another shot by myself though (competitive spirit coming out - one of my friends who is not a reader tells me he's read it - ...

The Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes are an absolute must. Dante Alighieri's epic trilogy including Inferno is another vital piece of this era's literary history.

Plays / Poetry 1. Faust FINISHED 2. Aeneid FINISHED 3. Paradise Lost 4. Divine Comedy 5. MacBeth 6. Gilgamesh 7. Odyssey 8. Iliad 1001 books you must read before you die 1. Birdsong FINISHED 2. Disgrace FINISHED 3. The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin ...

... Homer PE - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi PN - The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Watterson PQ - The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri PR – Hamlet by William Shakespeare PS - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan PZ - The Once and Future King by T. H. ...

I recommend listening to classics on audio, too. I had never read Dante Alighieri, so I listened to The Inferno on tape several years ago. Listening to it really brought it alive for me!

... NY: SUNY P, 1978. PRIMARY TEXTS: Contextual European and Latin Texts (To be read in translation) Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions; Selections from City of God; On Christian Doctrine Boccaccio, Decameron Boethius, The Consolation of Philosoph ...

... of a single Italian author right now except Dante Alighieri and it can't be him. Can it? (Maybe after he'd finished The Divine Comedy he moved onto thrillers?)

... ed. by Richard Pini ($1.85) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ($0.50) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ($0.50) Inferno by Dante Alighieri ($0.50) The Novels of Tiger and Del, Volume I by Jennifer Roberson ($2) Bite Me!: The Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vamp ...

... right now so that I could create NEW Study sheets for them. So, today I finished up the Study Sheets on Dante's Divine Comedy of which we read about 1/2 of The inferno and way too little of the other two; followed that up with #21 Milton's Paradise Lost which the ...

... translations, different prefatory material or notes, etc. For instance, I have three separate copies of Dante's Inferno. One is the Sayers translation with extensive notes, one is the bilingual BBC Edition, with minimal notes but twelve translators, and one is an old edition ...

... Best American Essays 2000 821 English poetry -- Byron: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 851 Italian poetry -- The Inferno 873 Latin epic poetry & fiction -- The Aeneid 888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings -- Great Dialogues, Plato 930 History of ancient world -- Th ...

some Classics Dracula by Bram Stoker Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Divine Comedy by Dante The Illiad/The Odyssey? Some of Poe's work of course. Do we put The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fantasy? when it was written it would have been Sci- ...

I have recently finished 'Hell', the first volume of Dante's Divine Comedy. Having trudged about half-way through a fairly difficult older Penguin Classic translation (by Dorothy Sayers), I was in Waterstones with half an hour to kill, and I picked up the newer Mark Musa translation, and I ...

... Giulio Leoni, translated by Anne Milano Appel. 6 stars. I wanted so much to love this novel, which featured Dante of Inferno fame in 14th Century Florence. Parts of it I did find wonderful, but too much of it read like a bad translation. Sorry, I don't know if that's true ~ maybe the ...

... ssession Tom Jones and The Rachel Papers Frankenstein and sexing the Cherry Gulliver's Travels and Atomised The Inferno and Sabbath's Theatre Oliver Twist and Trainspotting

... a `one trick pony`, which is far from the truth. Fact is, my first introduction to DLS was her translation of the Inferno, which we read in my high school English class. It wasn't until a number of years later that I discovered Lord Peter! My real collecting of her started with her ...

... part about a proper noun. Blink Bleachers Brethren Choke Lullaby Deception Everyman Messenger Inferno Lucky Twilight Twisted Wanderlust

... Flemish poetry (1951); The Penguin book of French verse, 4 : the twentieth century; Dorothy Sayer's translation of The comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine : Cantica I, Hell = L'Inferno; Oudere gronden, a book of poems by Jacques Hamelin ...

... desk has a little shelf where I keep some favorites I continually return to. Here's what they are: Virgil's Aeneid Dante's Inferno Shakespeare's sonnets Sidney's A Defense of Poetry Aquinas' On Being and Essence Kaufmann's Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre The Selec ...

To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley The Anathemata by David Jones The Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer The Inferno by Dante Alighieri The Devil's Picture Book by Paul Huson edited for typo!

... Books of Robert W. Service's poetry were to blame for Alaska & the Yukon. :-) My sister says it's a good thing The Inferno isn't my favorite book.

... The History of the Peloponnesian War The Iliad The Odyssey The Aeneid Satyricon Handbook of Epictetus The Inferno Fiction Little Women - READ IT Black Dahlia -READ IT The eye of the storm For love alone The Man of Property In Chancery To Let Of Huma ...

53. The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri translated by Allen Mandelbaum You all know the summary. This is the first time I have read Dante's Inferno completely through in English. I enjoyed the translation.

... with each volume/work having the same ISBN. So, the Great Books The Odyssey will have the same ISBN as the Great Books Dante's Inferno. This really screws up the suggestions list, and puts these works in great danger - most likely from hurried combining, clicking on the wrong line from the ...

... hell : grace and folly in nineteenth-century dance, by Elizabeth Aldrich A Season in Hell, by Arthur Rimbaud The Inferno, by Dante Devils of Loudon, by Aldous Huxley The Devil's Details, by Chuck Zerby Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell

How about Arno Schmidt? His The School for Atheists: A Novella = Comedy in 6 Acts is classic, a masterpiece in it's (own) class. I wouldn't try reading it in German, though. One thing about po|mo lit is that it's extremely challenging reading in a language you don't master perfectly. Eg. my ...

A bit obvious, I suppose, but Dante's Inferno comes to mind. As to his Paradiso, well, it's probably a bit heavy on the medieval theology for the modern reader, but worth reading, nonetheless.

... Fagles also translated Bacchylides and Aeschylus, and I do have a copy of the latter. I was going to mention the Inferno earlier but held back. Although I read the translation by C. H. Sisson previously, I was recently comparing many of the new translations of Dante (there's ...

... because they are eminently performable. I've seen productions, and they work. Does anyone have a recommendation for the Inferno by Dante Alighieri?

#204, One of several differences between the Inferno in all its translations and the Bible in all its translations/versions is that with the Bible differences, you're not just having a difference due to expression preferences, but the actual underlying original language (Hebrew, Greek) texts ...

... I suppose that this is natural. I don't hear very many people complaining about all the different translations of the Inferno being thrown into one work. One could easily argue that these vary as much as the different translations of the Bible. A prose translation might better ...

... and I'm not sure it was really very funny. I read it a long time ago. I think the others are plays but I'm not sure. The Complaisant Lover A Comedy by Graham Greene (Viking, 1961), hardcover Publisher: Viking Publication date: 1961 May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies ...

... point does the "not combine" rule take place? For example, should one decide to keep only Italian versions of Dante's Inferno together versus combining them with the other language translations because it's about 700 years old? What about Beowulf in Old English versus "modern" English?

... by Matthew Pearl. I've raelly gotten into it, and I want to start dante'sdivine comedy afterwards. I've read Inferno, but I'd like to get to reading his other canticles as well.

Dante's The Divine Comedy. It's a masterpiece, a mind-bending treatise on the art of "getting even" and the power of the imagination. I never thought I'd read or like this book, but it's life-altering. I became interested in it due to the first line alone: "At the midpoint of the journey's ...

... forever is anyones guess, but if we are with God who is the source of all good, I trust it will be fine. I must say that Dante's hell gave me a measure of satisfaction to read, but that was more likely my hypocrisy coming through. Actually, parts of it made me quite ill. Did that answer ...

... dates of the books is pretty and exciting until you realize that it isn't very useful. It tells you that the translation of Dante's Inferno you have dates to the early 60's. To me it would seem more useful even if you couldn't guess when it was written any closer than the nearest decade. Because ...

... Mallery Haven - Carolyn Davidson (No touchstone) Be My Valentine - Debbie Macomber Heart of Honor - Kat Martin Inferno - Karen Harper Rogue's Salute - Jennifer Blake (No touchstone) The Collector - Cameron Cruise Wild and Wicked in Scotland - Melody Thomas The Stranger I Mar ...

Here are some suggestions for Illinois: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Pit by Frank Norris Herzog by Saul Bellows Books by Sara Paretsky

... the other books of the 'Moosepath League' by Van Reid for Maine; Louisa Alcott and Henry James for New England; The Pit by Frank Norris for Chicago; Midnight in the garden of good and evil by John Berendt for Savannah; The alienist and The angel of darkness by Caleb C ...

... Color of Desire. I've just finished John Berendt's City of Falling Angels, and I'm leafing through a translation of Inferno which has both the English and Italian cantos (I'm learning Italian for just this purpose) on side-by-side pages.

... was actually a Norwegian edition (I think it's the only available edition) which only included 34 cantos (most of them from inferno of course) - the rest were chopped away. Btw, its introduction says that all the rhyming nouns in the original version are feminine, something that's natural in I ...

... remember when Dante came into my life...it feels like he's always been there. I think my father read to me from The Inferno when I was maybe 12 or so. At University I spent about three months breaking down The Inferno for a class about Gods and Death.

... already! I must have been dreaming. Anyway, Margaret Annan, my high school English teacher, led me to Dante. We read Inferno, in the Dorothy L. Sayers translation. Thank heavens for her notes! I loved it, but didn't follow up on the rest of the Divine Comedy until one summer, ...

Margaret Annan, a high school English teacher. We read Inferno, in the Dorothy L. Sayers translation, and I loved it! But school being school, I didn't take it any further until some years later, when I spent one summer reading the entire Divine Comedy. Now I'm studying Italian and ...

... more deeply, or was it a later reconnection? Or did you perhaps discover Dante some other way? I originally read Inferno during senior year of high school (at about 17 yrs old). I was intrigued at the time, so when I saw the following year in college that a professor of Theology ...

... more deeply, or was it a later reconnection? Or did you perhaps discover Dante some other way? I originally read Inferno during senior year of high school (at about 17 yrs old). I was intrigued at the time, so when I saw the following year in college that a professor of Theology ...