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  • Decadent Plays: 1890–1930

    Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

    by Mr Michael Field, Ms Lesya Ukrainka, Ms Rachilde, Mr Remy de Gourmont, Mr Jean Lorrain, Leonid Andreyev, Ms Djuna Barnes, Mr Izumi Kyoka, Maurice Maeterlinck, Mr Gabriele D'Annunzio ...
    Translated by Ms Vera Rich, Frazer Lively, Ms Kiki Gounaridou, Prof. Dan Rebellato, Ms Jennifer Higgins, Mr Fred Newton Scott, Mr Clarence L Meader, M Cody Poulton, Mr Bernard Miall, Mr Arthur Symons ...
    Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    Atmospheric Horror Stories

    Setting the scene in the worst way…

    by A M Burrage, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, E F Benson, E T A Hoffman, Ernst Raupach, F Marion Crawford, Jean Lorrain, M R James, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, May Sinclair, R Murray Gilchrist, Rosa Mulholland, Washington Irving ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    Horror stories are designed from the onset to create a story that will suddenly go very wrong and create a sheer horror and hell not only for the characters in the story but by extension ourselves.In this carefully crafted volume, our authors use their talents to create an atmosphere that might start with tingling tension but builds and builds until we can trust nothing but the certainty of the ... Read more

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  • Dante's Inferno

    In Modern English

    by Douglas Neff, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with modern language adaptation by Douglas Neff ...
    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 more

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  • The Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by John Ciardi ...
    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 first part of Dante**’**s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

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  • The Divine Comedy

    Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literatureAn epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Portable Dante

    by Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa ...
    Translated by Mark Musa ...
    The famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks—The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova—in one volumeA Penguin ClassicAs a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purgatory and Paradise, and populate all three realms ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Benedict Flynn ...
    Series Book 1 - Divine Comedy
    Dantes Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is led down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins committed on earth. The Inferno is the ... Read more

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  • Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the ... Read more

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  • Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Steve Ellis ...
    Welcome to Hell.One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned.Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Clive James ...
    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen GreenblattThe Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold ... Read more

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  • Dante's Inferno [translated]

    Modern English Translation

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Douglas Neff ...
    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 more

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  • The Purgatorio

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by John Ciardi ...
    In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of the aspiring soul. ... Read more

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