Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy" tracing Dante's journey from Hell to Purgatory & finally Paradise is published here for the first time in a single volume. The volume

Includes:: a new introduction notes maps & diagrams & is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time. " The Divine Comedy" describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory & encounter with his dead love Beatrice; & finally his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith desire & enlightenment the poem is a brilliantly nuanced & moving allegory of human redemption. " The perfect balance of tightness & colloquialism.. .likely to be the best modern version of Dante." (Bernard O' Donoghue). " The most moving lines literature has achieved." (Jorge Luis Borges). " This version is the first to bring together poetry & scholarship in the very body of the translation
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- informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read." (Professor David Wallace University of Pennsylvania). Individual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation
- Inferno Purgatorio & Paradiso
- are also available in " Penguin Classics" & include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 & belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties & poetry the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari whom he called Beatrice including " La Vita Nuova" & " The Divine Comedy'. He died in Ravenna in 1321. Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet & widely
- published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's " Divine Comedy" in Hong Kong Dublin & Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College & Professor of Italian & English Literatures."






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The second volume of Oxfords new Divine Comedy" presents the Italian text of the " Purgatorio" & on facing pages a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poets journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil the " Purgatorio" culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden & the reunion there with the poets long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account & Durlings prose translation like that of the " Inferno" is unprecedented in its accuracy eloquence & closeness to Dantes syntax. Martinez & Durlings notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages-often similarly numbered cantos
- in the " Inferno". Fifteen short essays explore special topics & controversial issues including Dantes debts to Virgil & Ovid his radical political views his original conceptions of homosexuality of moral growth & of eschatology. As in the " Inferno" there is an extensive bibliography & four useful indexes. Robert Turners illustrations include maps diagrams of Purgatory & the cosmos & line drawings of objects & places mentioned in the poem."
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Hey I'm Kitty Slade. Just your average normal girl doing you know normal stuff. Got a brother (annoying) a sister (quite annoying) & a grandma (she's awesome). Oh yeah & one more thing. I can see dead people." When a ghost turns up in her biology classroom only one thing's for sure
- Kitty Slade's life is about to get freaky..."
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Known by his alias Oliver Stone " John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger the men who hid the truth of Stone's past & kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge but his superiors aren't telling him everything there is to know about his quarry--and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he's trying to catch. Meanwhile with their friend & unofficial leader in hiding the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington D.C. to the coal-mining town of Devine Virginia--and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape." ...

CHERUB exists for the simplest of reasons: even a master criminal doesn't suspect that the kid next door is a spy. When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth & a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors James Adams is sent to Australia on an infiltration mission. It's his toughest job so far. The Survivors' outback headquarters are completely isolated & the cult's brainwashing techniques mean James is under massive pressure to conform. This time he's not just fighting terrorists. He's got to battle to keep control of his own mind. ...

Continuing the tradition of centuries The Divine Office is the Catholic liturgy for morning prayer prayer during the day & evening prayer for every day of the year. Volume Three of the Divine Office covers all the days of the year that are not covered in Volumes One & Two &

Includes:: all the prayers as well as readings. This edition comes in an attractive binding with ribbon marker. The Divine Office is the official text for the UK Ireland Australia New Zealand as well as various countries across Africa & Asia.

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The world is suffering from a severe drought. After no rain anywhere on earth for more than six months the forests & oil fields are burning. The nations blame each other for global warming some call it Freak Weather Syndrome others Gods revenge. In the UK the Conservative David Geayton is made Minister of Drought while his daughter Lucy tries to survive the increasing horrors of the Philippines. In Moscow Liudmila is part of an environmental organisation that is planning a Save the Planet conference & Charlotte Brand is reporting the corruption of the governors in San Francisco & the Government of America. No one knows they are suffering the effects of a divine unrequited love until a long forgotten pantheon of gods are made to come to earth to hold an election. But who if anyone will believe them? A Divine War is a humorous & irreverent tale
- with serious consequences.
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528 BC. In a tormented Egypt threatened both by the Greeks over-mighty influence & the Persians desire for conquest the struggle for power has taken the form of a deadly conspiracy
- & young scribe Kel finds himself unjustly accused of murder the helpless scapegoat at the centre of a sinister intrigue of State. As he strives to prove his innocence the only person Kel can rely on is Nitis the beautiful priestess with whom he is deeply in love. But then Nitis vanishes & Kel throws himself into a desperate quest to find her his destiny & that of Egypt inexorably bound together. Will he survive long enough to uncover the truth expose the conspirators & restore his good name? Nothing is certain. For when human beings choose to follow a path paved with violence & death they cannot avoid the vengeance of the gods.
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Its 1920s New York City. Its flappers & Follies jazz & gin. Its after the war but before the depression. & for certain group of bright young things its the opportunity to party like never before. For Evie ONeill its escape. Shes never fit in in small town Ohio & when she causes yet another scandal shes shipped off to stay with an uncle in the big city. But far from being exile this is exactly what shes always wanted: the chance to show how thoroughly modern & incredibly daring she can be. But New York City isnt about just jazz babies & follies girls. It has a darker side. Young women are being murdered across the city. & these arent crimes of passion. Theyre gruesome. Theyre planned. They bear a strange resemblance to an obscure group of tarot cards. & the New York City police cant solve them alone. Evie wasnt just escaping the stifling life of Ohio she was running from the knowledge of what she could do. She has a secret. A mysterious power that could help catch the killer
- if he doesnt catch her first.
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