{"product_id":"9780486442884","title":"The Inferno (Dover Thrift Editions)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Here at last that much suffering reader will find Dante's greatness manifest, and not his greatness only, but his grace, his simplicity, and his affection.\" — William Dean Howells, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a crown to his literary life, Longfellow combines his exquisite scholarship and his poetic skill and experience in the translation of one of the great poems of the world.\" — \u003ci\u003eHarper's Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter the unforgettable world of \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e and travel with a pair of poets through nightmare landscapes of eternal damnation to the very core of Hell. The first of the three major canticles in \u003ci\u003eLa divina commedia\u003c\/i\u003e (The Divine Comedy), this fourteenth-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise. His encounters with historical and mythological creatures — each symbolic of a particular vice or crime — blend vivid and shocking imagery with graceful lyricism in one of the monumental works of world literature.\u003cbr\u003eThis acclaimed translation was rendered by the beloved nineteenth-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A skilled linguist who taught modern languages at Harvard, Longfellow was among the first to make Dante’s visionary poem accessible to American readers.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012102635760,"sku":"9780486442884","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486442884_p0.jpg?v=1763708782","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486442884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}