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Prue Shaw's absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come.

Dante's epic story of a man's journey from darkness to the revelation of divine light is one of the greatest works of Western literature. Because of its length and its language, it is viewed as forbidding. Undergraduate courses often cherry-pick from the Inferno and barely glance at Purgatorio and Paradiso.

In The Essential Commedia, Prue Shaw fillets the epic to create an abs

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Prue Shaw's absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come.

Dante's epic story of a man's journey from darkness to the revelation of divine light is one of the greatest works of Western literature. Because of its length and its language, it is viewed as forbidding. Undergraduate courses often cherry-pick from the Inferno and barely glance at Purgatorio and Paradiso.

In The Essential Commedia, Prue Shaw fillets the epic to create an abs

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