exclaimed Diana, and rushed to open the door, but almost at once her excitement died, because it was not Lance's wife: it was Belle Crane. The girl's cheeks were pale, her eyes were feverishly bright, she was gasping for breath.
The French sales of the volume, in 1917 alone, exceeded a hundred thousand copies, a popularity all the more remarkable from the fact that its appeal is based as much on its philosophical substance as on the story which it tells.
Gideon. Series. (Writing as JJ Marric) These Titles can be read as a series, or randomly as standalone novels 1. Gideon's Day (Gideon of Scotland Yard) (1955) 2. Seven Days to Death (Gideon's Week) (1956) 3. ... Gideon's Art (1971) 18.
Book 4 of the Consolation makes a similar leap, demonstrating that fortune is the agent of divine providence, all fortune being intended by God to reward or discipline good people or to punish or correct the bad. (In Conv.
Among her illustrious descendants , Dante recognises the souls of Aeneas ( Anchises ' pious son ) and Hector . 120–23 . ... Democritus , who conceived of the world as a predetermined mechanical system , was a main proponent of atomism .
Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.
“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The ...
Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.
The Inferno
This definitive edition of Dante's masterpiece — translated by the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — features stunning engravings by Gustave Doré, an eminent 19th-century illustrator of classics.
Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of ...
You will practice patience which is as long as life - and maternity, which is as heavy as the world." The Inferno, otherwise translated as Hell, is the controversial novel by Henri Barbusse.
This definitive edition of Dante's masterpiece — translated by the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — features stunning engravings by Gustave Doré, an eminent 19th-century illustrator of classics.
In 1867, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first American edition of The Inferno, Dante was almost unknown in this country. The New England poet and educator, who taught...
Along the way, he meets a number of interesting figures. This edition uses the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
Presents the first part of Dante's "Divine Comedy", where Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell.
Reproduction of the original: The Inferno by August Strindberg
At the close of the Inferno he thus sums up the lesson of his life's pilgrimage: "Such then is my life: a sign, an example to serve for the improvement of others; a proverb, to show the nothingness of fame and popularity; a proverb, to show ...
The Scottish physicist Cameron saw a quasar in the sky over Australia. He dashed home to Scotland to find total catastrophe, and then he took over as natural leader.
... oil strike and a comparatively small one.' Cameron was suddenly aware that somehow he had contrived to eat his lunch without noticing it. Henry Mallinson was there standing behind his chair. 'Ah, Henry is reminding me that we have work ...