[英文原版经典名著] Inferno 但丁 地狱 英文版 作 者:Dante Alighieri 著 出 版 社:Random House 出版時間:2011-11-1 版 次:1 頁 數:395字 數: 印刷時間:2011-11-1 開 本:32開 紙 張:膠版紙 印 次:1I S B N:9780553213393 包 裝:平裝 Book De*ion Release date: January 1, 1982 | Series: Bantam Classics In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Editorial Reviews Review "An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable." --Chicago magazine "The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner. "Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity
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