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More editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale:

  • Cuentos De Canterbury
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo
    ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
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  • Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno
    by Carol Forman, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
    Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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    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]

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

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    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.

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

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    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]

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

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    ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

    BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

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

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    " Detailed explanatory notes

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    " 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.

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  • Eco, Umberto: El Nombre De La Rosa
    El Nombre De La Rosa
    by Umberto Eco
    ISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
    Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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  • El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Rose
    by Umberto Eco
    ISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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  • The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing
    ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Ellis, Steve: Hell
    Hell
    by Steve Ellis, Alighieri Dante
    ISBN 0701161272 (0-7011-6127-2)
    Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

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  • Il Nome Della Rosa
    by Umberto Eco
    ISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
    Hardcover, Bompiani

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    "II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]

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

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    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. [via]

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

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    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]

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

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    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]

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

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    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.

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

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    "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]

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

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    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]

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  • Eco, Umberto: Name Of The Rose
    The Name of the Rose
    by Umberto Eco
    ISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    "A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco.   The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]

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  • The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
    ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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    This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]

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  • The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt
    ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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    Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]

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