Dante's Inferno

About this book

In a dark forest, Dante meets Virgil and begins a descent through the circles of Hell. The dead speak of their choices, while storms, fire and impossible punishments make the landscape itself a record of human desire and wrongdoing.

The journey descends past terrifying guardians and people whose stories Dante never forgets, all the way to the frozen depths of the final circle. Henry Francis Cary's translation is accompanied here by Gustave Doré's monumental engravings. Ravines, towers and crowded passages give the poem a visual landscape of almost overwhelming scale.