Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two; Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray; Dante Alighieri

ISBN 10: 1786894734 / ISBN 13: 9781786894731

Published by Canongate Books, 2019

About this Item

First edition and printing of the Alasdair Gray translation. A nice copy with some light rubbing to the top edge of the jacket, and bottom fore corners bumped. An scarce title published shortly before the author's death in 2019. 12mo, white boards, pictorial jacket, 137 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1745035435994

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two; Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786894734
• ISBN 13: 9781786894731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Translations

About this title

Synopsis

In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this version of Dante’s epic, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in his own unique idiom. Lyrical, modern and illuminatingly illustrated, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. 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.”