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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 high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. For it is only by encountering Satan, in the heart of Hell, that he can truly understand the tragedy of sin.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
• Author: Dante Alighieri
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 576
• EAN: 9780141195872
• ISBN: 0141195878
• ID: 01322246
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 694 g
• Dimensions: 207 × 137 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. November 2010

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