Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One, Englished in Prosaic Verse and Decorated by Alasdair Gray

by Dante Alighieri, Alasdair Gray

Overview

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante’s La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786892881
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	10/04/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.

Editorial Reviews

The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.

Anthony Burgess

A necessary genius.

Ali Smith

"[Alasdair] Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake"

Observer