'I truly thought I'd never make it back' Ten of the most memorable & most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Dante's works available in Penguin Classics are Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso The Divine Comedy & Vita Nuova