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A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with scholars, teachers, and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.

Esolen's edition also provides a critical ntroduction and endnotes, with appendices containing Dante's most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and beyond —that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.

Verse Translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré]]> 490 Dante Alighieri 0812970063 ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 4.02 1320
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]]> 7853104 folie á deux...

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! We murder for each other, see? I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?"'

From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.]]> 262 Patricia Highsmith ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 3.57 1950
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For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.

But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion, who places no value on human life...]]> 129 Arthur Conan Doyle ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 3.91 1890
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]]> 243705 283 John Fowles ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 3.97 1963
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]]> 13109354 One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar believes all women are unfaithful and vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive, his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales night after night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, thus prolonging her life for another day.

Written in Arabic from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab empire, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate.

Now adapted by Hanan al-Shaykh the One Thousand and One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice.]]> 320 Hanan Al-Shaykh 0307958868 ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 3.82 2011
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]]> 5096865 The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 368 Truman Capote ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 4.19 1966
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]]> 12409502 138 Arthur Conan Doyle 0712358412 ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 3.51 2011
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]]> 876208 294 Ray Bradbury 0006479227 ²õ²¹²õ³ó²¹âŸ¢ 0 to-read, sr-list 4.02 1951
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