The Divine Comedy

Dante's journey begins in the depths of Hell and climbs through Purgatory toward the radiant spheres of Paradise, guided first by the poet Virgil and later by Beatrice. This edition presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's historic translation, the first American rendering of the work, alongside 140 illustrations by Gustave Doré. Justice, redemption and the soul's search for the divine run through every stage of the journey, carried by verse and imagery that have shaped the Western imagination for centuries.