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Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
798 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
3) Inferno
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxvi, 208 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Gabriel's Inferno books volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious...
Author
Series
Gabriel's Inferno books volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Trade
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he's confident that they can face any challenge. And he's eager to become a father. But Julianne's graduate program threatens Gabriel's plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront Julianne...
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
En la que quizá sea su mejor novela a la fecha, la que le valió el Premio Mazatlán a la mejor novela del año, Ignacio Padilla cuenta las aventuras de los distintos exploradores que intentaron llegar al fondo de cierta montaña de Sicilia, la cual, si los intérpretes de Dante Alighieri están en lo correcto, constituye la única entrada de este mundo a todos los círculos del infierno, la única capaz de demostrar si existe algo más allá de...
Author
Series
Gabriel's Inferno books volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. but when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante's fate?...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Words Can Bleed. In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields -- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: "In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself...
10) The gargoyle
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a burn ward after being horribly burned in a terrible car accident, the cynical narrator is visited by a beautiful and enigmatic sculptress of gargoyles who tells him that they had once been lovers in medieval Germany.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
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