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Sono d'accordo, cinque sono troppo pochi ma, dovendo per forza scegliere.....
La Divina Commedia
Possession di A.S. Byatt
Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca
Pinocchio
The Song of the Lark di Willa Cather ... on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me...
Inspired by the Divine Comedy. #123
Spanish: Don Quixote
Italian: The Divine Comedy I intended on reading The Divine Comedy... I guess I have to rethink it now... My BFF bought for me (as a random gift!):
Divine Comedy and Don Quixote, both illustrated by Dore! Yay! ... the Qu'ran.
The first novel - Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, and the poetry of Matsuo Basho.
Dante's Divine Comedy.
The Chinese classic, Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
The One Thousand and One Nights
Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther
Oh, ... ... of this! I don't think I'll finish, but it's fun to try.
I. Classics
1. Don Quixote
2. The Three Musketeers
3. The Divine Comedy
4. The Canterbury Tales
5. Middlemarch
6. Journal of the Plague Year
7. Pygmalion
8. Bleak House
II. Mysteries
1. The Tale of Hawthorn ... ... in the way of my reading.
I missed my 75 book goal last year, mostly because I miscalculated and counted things like Divine Comedy as one work rather then breaking it down into 3. This year, I will not be making that mistake.
I like reading really hard books with what I term "brain ... My One Book is The Divine Comedy -- I have a lovely hardcover version that my brother bought me a few years ago, and there it sits on my shelf, waiting for me to pick it up and read it. Crime and Punishment is the same way; maybe I should try for Two Books this year (along with the 200+ ... Thanks for starting this thread, Theresa. I would also recommend The Oxford Book of Heaven by Carol and Philip Zaleski. For Greek antiquity I would mention The Greek Way of Death by Robert Garland, Restless Dead by Sarah Iles Johnston, and especially the truly wonderful Aspects ... ... to continue.
Please, please, please make it so the changes are shown immediately. I recently helped untangle The Divine Comedy and Paradiso which had been combined. It was horrible; one reason is because our changes where not updated quickly. It would really help and ... My family exchanged a few Christmas gifts early today and I ended up getting The Republic and Other Works by Plato, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and The Aenied by Virgil. ... bound chat book sized collection of all of Shakespeare's works, published from 1880-1890,
a three volume set of the Divine Comedy from the 1890's which are green in (needs to be rebound) leather, and
a 26 cloth bound set of the complete works of Charles Dickens.
I've managed ... ... by Paula B Doress-Worters
Listen by Joseph Kerman
Oscar Wilde by Frank Harris
Booknotes by Brian Lamb
The inferno collection by Jacqueline Seewald
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Enough : staying human in an engineered age by Bill McKibben
Last suppers : if the world ... ... Hunting Grounds
Highway to Heaven
I think this is the correct order, based on thinking about Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and they resemble C.S. Lewis' space trilogy. But I haven't tried out tags for this, which seems like a good idea. But I never keep tags in any order, I ... ... a nodding acquaintance with Latin or any Romance languages (preferably Italian or Spanish), I strongly recommend reading The Divine Comedy in a translation that has the original text on the facing page. That way you could get the additional benefit of reading the Italian aloud to hear ... Angel with Attitude by Michelle Rowen
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Lord God Made them All by James Herriot I've heard of the Decameron as well, usually as a contrast to The Divine Comedy. I haven't read it myself, so I can't recommend any particular edition. Just make sure it's not an abridged edition because it's supposed to be a collection of exactly 100 short stories. Checking briefly, some ... ... specific)
Canterbury Tales (Riverside Chaucer) or The Decameron
Morte D'arthur (Vinaver's two-volume edition)
The Divine Comedy
Roman de la Rose To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
The Divine Comedy by Dante ... you recommend what you've found to be the best translations of the following?:
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
The Divine Comedy
I prefer unabridged versions, but I don't want to get bogged down before I even really start. There are literally hundreds of versions of these books ... ... and the Jesters by Ellen Kindt McKenzie
The King's Fool by Victor Hugo
Jingle the Christmas Clown by Tomie dePaola
The Divine Comedy by Dante ... get a good translation
The Aeneid by Vergil - be sure to get a good translation
The Decameron by Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Anything by Agatha Christie
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevski
Logbook from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck
Notes ... ... the following. St. Augustine's Confessions, The Didache, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Dante's, The Divine Comedy.
One should have biblical commentaries, but I don't know whether this 1,000 book list should be read- through books, or whether eference works are ... ...
Well, I would say that people who read Homer in ancient greek have an above average interest in Beowulf, Gilgamesh, La Divina Comedia, Tacitus, and others. You read ancient greek, then you probably read Latin as well, and a bit of ancient Hebrew, and I bet you know one or two things ... ... an interest in ancient Greek culture/literature, but it also shows an interest in Beowulf, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and The Divine Comedy, according to the recommendations. None of those books are recommended for the Greek version.
Basically, there's a clear difference in the ... A Dante Sequence
Sunday 6 May 2007 22:15-0:00 (Radio 3)
Dante's journey from the infernal underworld to Paradise in The Divine Comedy has inspired writers and composers through the ages.
In this sequence, poems by WH Auden, Samuel Beckett, TS Eliot and Stevie Smith are ... Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
the Odyssey by Homer
the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
the Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
Voyage of the Damned >29
Xtien, I agree completely. I myself have eleven translations of the Divine Comedy or parts of it, besides an edition in the original language. I want them all combined, because they are all versions of one and the same work. I make no distinction between prose and verse translations; this ... Don't forget Dante's Divine Comedy. ... Tales from the Far North and Violet Fairy Book, The Mythology of South America
The Sinister Pig, Hunting Badger
The Divine Comedy, Purgatory and Hell, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers
An Acceptable Time, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
Camille and Cannery Row
Th ... #110 Don't I know it!
Visited a used bookstore while my son was at baseball practice...
Dante's The Divine Comedy Hell & Purgatory, parts 1 & 2, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Truth by Terry Pratchett Very difficult to find Pratchett books used, guess that's good for ... ... James Howe (it's my fav childhood author, okay?) pp160
2. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon pp192
3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri tranlated by John Cardi pp928
4. If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways by Daniel Quinn pp 208
5. The Lone Ran ... ... all, I love the idea of this group!
My big books for the year are:
1. The Daily Bible
2. The Gathering Storm
3. The Divine Comedy
4. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1
5. The Ghatti's Tale, Volume 1
I figured out if I read at least 8 pages a day of The Gathering Storm ... 1. Paradise Lost
2. Vanity Fair
3. Old Testament
4. The Divine Comedy
5. Le Morte D'Arthur
I think those are all big books. I wanted to finish all of the Old Testament this year, but sadly, I didn't accomplish that goal. ... by Alexander King
The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll
Junior High:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Divine Comedy:Hell by Dante (Dorothy L. Sayers, trans.)
The Dot and the Line by Norman Justin
The Worlds of Frank Herbert
High School:
The Best Science Fi ... ... to read it but just couldn't bring myself to continue after the first few chapters.
I've also tried to finish Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at least ten times each, but never managed either. And I really hate leaving books unread. ... years ago (bought and read it while on vacation in Venice actually), and I think it was after reading it I went on to read the divine comedy.
The first version I read was actually a Norwegian edition (I think it's the only available edition) which only included 34 cantos (most of them from i ... ... the Dorothy L. Sayers translation. Thank heavens for her notes! I loved it, but didn't follow up on the rest of the Divine Comedy until one summer, years later, when I read the entire thing.
Now I'm studying Italian. Maybe one day I'll read it in the original. ... had been reading widely, including Theological Styles, which discussed Dante, Peguy, and others. So, I read the Divine Comedy in the shadow of a statue of Dante in Washington, DC. As a middle school teacher, however, I plan to offer students a couple of morsels of Dante to whet their ... ... But school being school, I didn't take it any further until some years later, when I spent one summer reading the entire Divine Comedy.
Now I'm studying Italian and hope, one day, to read Dante in the original.
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