A. Colish (Firm)
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This first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno and, on facing pages, a new prose translation (the first in twenty-five years). The editor's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. The introduction and notes are designed...
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Lyric poem about a Russian aristocrat who feels empty despite the beauty that surrounds him. Eugene moves to the country and meets Tatyana, an eccentric maiden who falls in love with him. He rejects her and lives to regret it, inciting a fatal duel with his best friend.