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...

Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil, ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance to expiate their sins on earth. There are the proud - forced to circle their terrace for eons bent double in humility, the slothful - running around crying out examples of zeal and sloth, while the lustful are purged by fire.

The Paradiso, 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 todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of...

Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be read and understood by today's reader.

Brandon has a seemingly perfect life. Model by day and indulging in all the parties at night. But under the surface, Brandon hides his terrible past...one that he believes he has paid insufficient penance. But as he sees it there is a way out of this predicament and that means he is coming for you, sinners. Part one of two.

What makes someone kill? The age-old question of nature (genetics) versus nurture (conditioning) is still open to debate. What is not open for debate is Brandon's need to kill. But it isn't for revenge or fame or money...it's for penance. He may have had the perfect life of being a model by day and partier by night but underneath he is a tormented, murderous soul. And as the investigating detectives along with the FBI find out, this is a motive enough...