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Hell_Alasdair Gray

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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 978-1786892539

RRP: £14.99

PAGES: 144

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 4, 2018

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HELL: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray

“In middle age I wholly lost my way and found myself within an evil wood far from the right straight road we all should tread”

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante’s La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.

Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

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Alasdair Gray

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures.

In his own words, ‘Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.’