books tagged “afterlife”

books tagged “afterlife”

›
› Find signed collectible books by ''

English

  • The Brief History of the Dead
    by Kevin Brockmeier
    ISBN 1400095956 (1-4000-9595-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Brief History of the Dead'
    Book summary:

    Remember me when Im gone
    just took on a whole new meaning.

    The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the only newspaper in the City, with news from the other side; Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the cautionary words of God; and Marion and Phillip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage.

    On Earth, Laura Byrd is trapped by extreme weather in an Antarctic research station. Shes alone and unable to contact the outside world: her radio is down and the power is failing. Shes running out of supplies as quickly as shes running out of time.

    Kevin Brockmeier interweaves these two stories in a spellbinding tale of human connections across boundaries of all kinds. The Brief History of the Dead is the work of a remarkably gifted writer. [via]

    More editions of The Brief History of the Dead:

  • The Comedy of Dante Alighieri
    by Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. Sayers
    ISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'
    Book summary:

    Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved  the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady  he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]

    More editions of The Comedy of Dante Alighieri:

  • The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine
    by Dante Alighieri, Dorothy L. Sayers
    ISBN 0140440062 (0-14-044006-2)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine'
    Book summary:

    Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his "Divine Comedy", Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. [via]

    More editions of The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine:

  • The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
    by C. S. Lewis
    ISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
    Hardcover, Harper San Francisco

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'
    Book summary:

    For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]

    More editions of The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics:

  • Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno
    by Mark Musa, Dante Alighieri
    ISBN 0253332141 (0-253-33214-1)
    Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno'
    Book summary:

    NOTE: SOLD AS SET ONLY

    "Musas commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." Library Journal

    "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." Choice

    The publication of the first two volumes of the six-volume Divine Comedy brings readers Mark Musas vivid verse translation of the Inferno. Musa has revised his earlier version, long cited as the most accessible and reliable of the English translations. The dual-language first volume presents Musas translation with facing Italian text, and compiled in the second volume is his lifetime study of the Inferno, where Musa examines and discusses the critical commentary of other Dante scholars and presents his own ideas and interpretations.

    [via]

    More editions of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno:

  • Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno
    by Carol Forman, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
    Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno'
    Book summary:

    A guide to reading "The Inferno" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]

    More editions of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno:

  • Dante's Comedy: The Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri
    ISBN 0828318840 (0-8283-1884-0)
    Softcover, Branden Pub Co

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Comedy: The Inferno'
    Book summary:

    Translated by Nicholas Kilmer, and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez. Dante called his great work The Comedy - signifying a narrative with a happy ending. The narrative is about the journey of the human spirit through trial, and toward salvation. The journey takes place in three segments of which this, "The Inferno," is the first. [via]

    More editions of Dante's Comedy: The Inferno:

  • Dante's Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton
    ISBN 1420926381 (1-4209-2638-1)
    Softcover, Digireads.Com

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'
    Book summary:

    A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers. [via]

    More editions of Dante's Inferno:

  • Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets
    by Daniel Halpern
    ISBN 0880013737 (0-88001-373-7)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets'
    Book summary:

    A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, andwith all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetrymanages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.

    [via]

    More editions of Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets:

  • Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition
    by Mark Musa, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 0253209307 (0-253-20930-7)
    Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition'
    Book summary:

    This new critical edition, including Mark Musas classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dantes masterpiece.

    [via]

    More editions of Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition:

  • Dante's Purgatorio
    by Marcus Sanders, Michael F. Meister, Marcia Tanner, Sandow Birk
    ISBN 0811847195 (0-8118-4719-5)
    Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio'
    Book summary:

    Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of Purgatorio couples a clever literary adaptation incorporating modern urban speech and contemporary references with powerful illustrations inspired by Gustave Dor's famous engravings. Whereas Inferno was primarily situated in a city that bears a curious resemblance to modern Los Angeles, Purgatorio is set in a surreal San Francisco Bay Area, an outlandish and hopeful milieu for those who have a chance to wash their sins away. Together, the sardonic yet playful combination of text and images comprise a vivid retelling of this masterpiece. [via]

    More editions of Dante's Purgatorio:

  • Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatory
    by Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton
    ISBN 142092639X (1-4209-2639-X)
    Softcover, Digireads.Com

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatory'
    Book summary:

    The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the second part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Purgatorio" or "Purgatory," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton. [via]

    More editions of Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatory:

  • The Descent into Hell
    by Not Available, Dorothy L. Sayers
    ISBN 0141026421 (0-14-102642-1)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Descent into Hell'
    Book summary:

    Many have made the journey. None have ever returned. Wandering through a dark forest, Dante finds himself at the gates to the underworld. Despite his terror, he dares to enter the Circles of Hell, where the damned lie in torment. As he descends deeper, he encounters wild-eyed sinners, sees the three-headed, howling hound Cerberus, and meets a long-dead prophet who foretells Dante's destiny. He passes through realms of fire and ice, and at last reaches the frozen heart of Hell where the hideous Satan, greatest of all the damned, lies in wait. [via]

    More editions of The Descent into Hell:

  • The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri, J. G. Nichols
    ISBN 1843911116 (1-84391-111-6)
    Softcover, Trafalgar Square

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'
    Book summary:

    This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.

    "The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.

    "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.

    "Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]

    More editions of The Divine Comedy:

  • The Divine Comedy
    by Frederic Will, Alighieri Dante, Cynthia Brantley Johnson
    ISBN 1416500235 (1-4165-0023-5)
    Softcover, Pocket Classics

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'
    Book summary:

    ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

    BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

    The first volume of The Divine Comedy--Dante begins his downward journey through the seven circles of Hell.

    EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

    " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

    " A chronology of the author's life and work

    " A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

    " An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

    " Detailed explanatory notes

    " Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

    " Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

    " A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

    Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

    SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

    [via]

    More editions of The Divine Comedy:

  • The Divine Comedy
    by Mark Musa, Dante Alighieri
    ISBN 0142437220 (0-14-243722-0)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'
    Book summary:

    This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. @HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]

    More editions of The Divine Comedy:

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
    by Dante Alighieri
    ISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
    Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'
    Book summary:

    "As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times

    In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.

    "If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune


    From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]

    More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri:

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno
    by Robert M. Durling, Alighieri Dante, Robert Turner
    ISBN 0195087445 (0-19-508744-5)
    Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'
    Book summary:

    This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]

    More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno:

  • Elsewhere
    by Gabrielle Zevin
    ISBN 0312367465 (0-312-36746-5)
    Softcover, Square Fish

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Elsewhere'
    Book summary:

    Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?

    Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. Its quiet and peaceful. You cant get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewheres museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroes psychiatric practice.
     
    Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her drivers license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that shes dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesnt want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
     
    Elsewhere is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
    [via]

    More editions of Elsewhere:

  • Everlost
    by Neal Shusterman
    ISBN 0689872372 (0-689-87237-2)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Everlost'
    Book summary:

    Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident...

    ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no onger exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.

    When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the "Criminal Art" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.

    In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.

    [via]

    More editions of Everlost:

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom
    ISBN 1401308589 (1-4013-0858-9)
    Softcover, Hyperion Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven'
    Book summary:

    Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.

    Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]

    More editions of The Five People You Meet in Heaven:

  • Great Divorce
    by C. S. Lewis
    ISBN 0020868901 (0-02-086890-1)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Great Divorce'
    Book summary:

    The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer George MacDonald; and upon boarding a bus in a nondescript neighborhood, the narrator is taken to Heaven and Hell. The book's primary message is presented with almost oblique tidiness--"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" However, the narrator's descriptions of sin and temptation will hit quite close to home for many readers. Lewis has a genius for describing the intricacies of vanity and self-deception, and this book is tremendously persistent in forcing its reader to consider the ultimate consequences of everyday pettiness. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]

    More editions of Great Divorce:

  • The Great Divorce: A Dream
    by C. S. Lewis
    ISBN 0060652950 (0-06-065295-0)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Divorce: A Dream'
    Book summary:

    C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil. [via]

    More editions of The Great Divorce: A Dream:

  • Hell
    by Steve Ellis, Dante Alighieri
    ISBN 0099476711 (0-09-947671-1)
    Hardcover, Vintage

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Hell'

    More editions of Hell:

  • The Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary, Claire Honess
    ISBN 1853267872 (1-85326-787-2)
    Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'
    Book summary:

    The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simpleand now legendarytercet:

    Midway upon the journey of our life
    I found myself within a forest dark
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

    With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Infernoone of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval worldthe silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.

    This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.

    Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.
     
    Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.

    [via]

    More editions of The Inferno:

  • The Inferno
    by Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. Esolen
    ISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'
    Book summary:

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. [via]

    More editions of The Inferno:

  • The Inferno
    by Gustave Dore, Anthony M. Esolen, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 034548357X (0-345-48357-X)
    Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'

    More editions of The Inferno:

  • Inferno
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino Pertile
    ISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'
    Book summary:

    In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]

    More editions of Inferno:

  • The Inferno
    by Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gustave Dore, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 1593080514 (1-59308-051-4)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'
    Book summary:

    The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simple—and now legendary—tercet:

    Midway upon the journey of our life
    I found myself within a forest dark
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

    With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Inferno—one of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval world—the silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.

    This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. “Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, “and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.

    Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.
     

    Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.

    [via]

    More editions of The Inferno:

  • The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation
    by Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky, Nicole Pinsky
    ISBN 0374524521 (0-374-52452-1)
    Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation'
    Book summary:

    The one quality that all classic works of literature share is their timelessness. Shakespeare still plays in Peoria 400 years after his death because the stories he dramatized resonate in modern readers' hearts and minds; methods of warfare have changed quite a bit since the Trojan War described by Homer in his Iliad, but the passions and conflicts that shaped such warriors as Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus still find their counterparts today on battlefields from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Likewise, a little travel guide to hell written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in the 13th century remains in print at the end of the 20th century, and it continues to speak to new generations of readers. There have been countless translations of the Inferno, but this one by poet Robert Pinsky is both eloquent and tailored to our times.

    Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]

    More editions of The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation:

  • The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation
    by Robert Pinsky, Nicole Pinsky, Alighieri Dante, Michael Mazur
    ISBN 0374525315 (0-374-52531-5)
    Softcover, Noonday Pr

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation'
    Book summary:

    The one quality that all classic works of literature share is their timelessness. Shakespeare still plays in Peoria 400 years after his death because the stories he dramatized resonate in modern readers' hearts and minds; methods of warfare have changed quite a bit since the Trojan War described by Homer in his Iliad, but the passions and conflicts that shaped such warriors as Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus still find their counterparts today on battlefields from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Likewise, a little travel guide to hell written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in the 13th century remains in print at the end of the 20th century, and it continues to speak to new generations of readers. There have been countless translations of the Inferno, but this one by poet Robert Pinsky is both eloquent and tailored to our times.

    Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]

    More editions of The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation:

  • The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
    by Ciaran Carson
    ISBN 1862075255 (1-86207-525-5)
    Hardcover, Granta Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante Alighieri'
    Book summary:

    "Inferno", the first volume of Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Comemedia", is an imaginitive tour de force. Dante's hero, Virgil, guides him through hell, showing him the inhabitants of each of its nine circles and examples of the divine justice meted out to them. Ciaran Carson's translation of the text is suffused with wit, anger and irreverent vigour and attempts not to diminish the pathos of the original. [via]

    More editions of The Inferno of Dante Alighieri:

  • The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri
    by Dante Alighieri, Ciaran Carson
    ISBN 1590171144 (1-59017-114-4)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri'
    Book summary:

    This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thinga translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature. [via]

    More editions of The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri:

  • The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold
    ISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
    Softcover, Thorndike Press

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'
    Book summary:

    On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.

    As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".

    The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".

    Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]

    More editions of The Lovely Bones:

  • Domingue, Ronlyn: The Mercy of Thin Air
    The Mercy of Thin Air
    by Ronlyn Domingue
    ISBN 0743278828 (0-7432-7882-8)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Mercy of Thin Air'

    More editions of The Mercy of Thin Air:

  • Passage
    by Connie Willis
    ISBN 0553580515 (0-553-58051-5)
    Softcover, Bantam Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Passage'
    Book summary:

    Most of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel Passage make a living at it. Joanna Lander is a medical researcher specializing in Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and how the brain constructs them. Her partner in this endeavor is Richard Wright, a single-minded scientist who induces NDEs in healthy people by injecting a compound that tricks the brain into thinking it's dying. Joanna and Richard team up and try to find test subjects whose ability to report their experiences objectively hasn't been wrecked by reading the books of pop-psychologist and hospital gadabout Maurice Mandrake. Mandrake has gained fame and fortune by convincing people that they can expect light, warmth, and welcoming loved ones once they die. Joanna and Richard try to quantify NDEs in more scientific terms, a frustrating exercise to say the least.

    The brain cells started to die within moments of death. By the end of four to six minutes the damage was irreversible, and people brought back from death after that didn't talk about tunnels and life reviews. They didn't talk at all.... But if the dying were facing annihilation, why didn't they say, "It's over!" or, "I'm shutting down"?... Why did they say, "It's beautiful over there," and, "I'm coming, Mother!"

    When Joanna decides to become a test subject and see an NDE firsthand, she discovers that death is both more and less than she expected. Telling anything at all about her experience would be spoiling the book's suspenseful buildup, but readers are in for some shocks as Willis reveals the secrets and mysteries of the afterlife. Unfortunately, several running gags--the maze-like complexity of the hospital, Mandrake's oily sales pitch, and a tiresomely talkative World War II veteran--go on a little too long and threaten the pace of the story near the middle. But don't stop reading! We expect a lot from Connie Willis because she's so good, and Passage's payoff is incredible--the ending will leave you breathless, and more than a little haunted. Passage masterfully blends tragedy, humor, and fear in an unforgettable meditation on humanity and death. --Therese Littleton [via]

    More editions of Passage:

  • Purgatorio
    by Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Conaway Bondanella
    ISBN 1593083718 (1-59308-371-8)
    Hardcover, Barnes & Noble

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'
    Book summary:

    Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
    • Biographies of the authors
    • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
    • Footnotes and endnotes
    • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
    • Comments by other famous authors
    • Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
    • Bibliographies for further reading
    • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

     

    Perhaps the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieris all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. Joyfully anticipating heaven, Purgatorio continues the poets journey from the darkness of Hell to the divine light of Paradise.

    Beginning with Dantes liberation from the Inferno, part two of The Divine Comedy follows the poet as he and the Roman poet Virgil struggle up the steep terraces of the earthly island-mountain called Purgatory, miraculously created as a result of Lucifers storied fall. As he travels through the first seven levelseach representing one of the seven deadly sinsDante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise. Each echelon teaches a new lesson about human healing and growth, on earth as well as in the spiritual world. As he journeys upward, level by level, Dante gradually changes into a wiser, braver, and better man. Only when he has learned from each of these stations will he finally be allowed to ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden.

    Perhaps Dantes most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatorio is an enthralling allegory of sin, redemption, and ultimate enlightenment.

     

    Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. She has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and as Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include a book on Petrarch, The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, and translations of Italian classics by Benvenuto Cellini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giorgio Vasari.

    Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and has been President of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature, and studies of Italian cinema. His latest book is Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, a history of how Italian Americans have been depicted in Hollywood.

    [via]

    More editions of Purgatorio:

  • The Purgatorio
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Julia Conaway Bondanella
    ISBN 1593082193 (1-59308-219-3)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'
    Book summary:

    Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

     

    Perhaps the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieris all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. Joyfully anticipating heaven, Purgatorio continues the poets journey from the darkness of Hell to the divine light of Paradise.

    Beginning with Dantes liberation from the Inferno, part two of The Divine Comedy follows the poet as he and the Roman poet Virgil struggle up the steep terraces of the earthly island-mountain called Purgatory, miraculously created as a result of Lucifers storied fall. As he travels through the first seven levels—each representing one of the seven deadly sins—Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise. Each echelon teaches a new lesson about human healing and growth, on earth as well as in the spiritual world. As he journeys upward, level by level, Dante gradually changes into a wiser, braver, and better man. Only when he has learned from each of these stations will he finally be allowed to ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden.

    Perhaps Dantes most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatorio is an enthralling allegory of sin, redemption, and ultimate enlightenment.

    Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. She has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and as Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include a book on Petrarch, The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, and translations of Italian classics by Benvenuto Cellini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giorgio Vasari.

    Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and has been President of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature, and studies of Italian cinema. His latest book is Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, a history of how Italian Americans have been depicted in Hollywood.

    [via]

    More editions of The Purgatorio:

  • Purgatory
    by Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. Esolen
    ISBN 0812971256 (0-8129-7125-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatory'
    Book summary:

    A new translation by Anthony Esolen
    Illustrations by Gustave Doré
     
    Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all timepresenting Dantes brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolens acclaimed translation of Inferno, Princeton professor James Richardson said, follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing. This edition of Purgatory includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotesan invaluable guide for both general readers and students.

    [via]

    More editions of Purgatory:

  • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
    by Mary Roach
    ISBN 0393329127 (0-393-32912-7)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife'
    Book summary:

    If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humour, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach informs us in her introduction, "This is a book for people who would like very much to believe in a soul and in an afterlife for it to hang around in, but who have trouble accepting these things on faith. It's a giggly, random, utterly earthbound assault on our most ponderous unanswered question." Talk about truth in advertising. With that, Roach grabs us by the wrist and hauls butt to India, England, and various points in between in search of human spiritual ephemera, consulting an earnest bunch of scientists, mystics, psychics, and kooks along the way. It's a heck of a journey and Roach, with one eyebrow mischievously cocked, is a fantastically entertaining tour guide, at once respectful and hilarious, dubious yet probing. And brother, does she bring the facts. Indeed, Spook's myriad footnotes are nearly as riveting as the principal text. To wit: "In reality, an X-ray of the head could not show the brain, because the skull blocks the rays. What appeared to be an X-ray of the folds and convolutions of a human brain inside a skull--an image circulated widely in 1896--was in fact an X-ray of artfully arranged cat intestines." Or this: "Medical treatises were eminently more readable in Sanctorius's day. Medicina statica delved fearlessly into subjects of unprecedented medical eccentricity: 'Cucumbers, how prejudicial,' and the tantalizing 'Leaping, its consequences.' There's even a full-page, near-infomercial-quality plug for something called the Flesh-Brush." While rigid students of theology might take exception to Roach's conclusions (namely, we're just a bag of bones killing time before donning a soil blanket) it's hard to imagine anyone not enjoying this impressively researched and immensely readable book. And since, as Roach suggests, each of us has only one go-round, we might as well waste downtime with something thoroughly fun. --Kim Hughes [via]

    More editions of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife:

  • Matheson, Richard: What Dreams May Come
    What Dreams May Come
    by Richard Matheson
    ISBN 0765308703 (0-7653-0870-3)
    Softcover, Tor Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'What Dreams May Come'

    More editions of What Dreams May Come:

  • Wish List
    by Lisa Cach, Lisa Kleypas, Claudia Dain, Lynsay Sands
    ISBN 0843951028 (0-8439-5102-8)
    Softcover, Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Wish List'
    Book summary:

    PAPERBACK [via]

    More editions of Wish List:

  • Wish List
    by Lynsay Sands, Claudia Dain, Lisa Kleypas
    ISBN 0843949317 (0-8439-4931-7)
    Hardcover, Leisure Books

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'Wish List'

    More editions of Wish List:

  • The Wishlist
    by Eoin Colfer
    ISBN 0786818638 (0-7868-1863-8)
    Hardcover, Miramax

    Find This Book

     

    › Find signed collectible books: 'The Wishlist'
    Book summary:

    Meg Finn has led a miserable life. First, her mum died, saddling her with a useless, nasty stepfather. Then, angry and alone, Meg found herself committing acts of petty crime with dim-witted hood Belch Brennan. Finally, just as she was about to go straight to honor her sainted mums memory, Belch went and got them both killed as they attempted to rob crabby old Lowrie McCall. And if that wasnt bad enough, now St. Peter and Beelzebub cant decide which way Meg is supposed to go. She is one in a million: a soul perfectly balanced between good and evil. Now Megs got to go back and somehow tip the scales UP--the further, the better! To earn her wings, Megs been assigned to help the last person she tried to hurt (Lowrie McCall) who has a wish list of wrong choices that he wants to make right. But Beelzebub cant stand the thought of a bad soul going good. So he sends back the soul of powerfully stupid Belch, (who went straight down without stopping) to muck things up for Meg and Lowrie. But Megs got smarts on her side and more than just a few tricks up her insubstantial sleeve...

    At times, best-selling author Eoin Colfers Wish List reads like a head-on collision between Dawsons Creek and Touched by an Angel. But rabid fans of the Artemis Fowl books wont notice or care. This black comedy is sure to make every fantasy-reading teens Wish List. --Jennifer Hubert [via]

    More editions of The Wishlist:

Spanish

French

Italian