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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 851.1
EAN: 9780764586545
ISBN: 0764586548
Label: Cliffs Notes
Manufacturer: Cliffs Notes
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2001-03-07
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Studio: Cliffs Notes

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

CliffsNotes on Divine Comedy: Inferno takes you deep inside Dante's vision of Hell, the first installment in his three-poem epic.

Following the spiritual journey of Dante and his guide Virgil, this expert study companion provides summaries, commentaries, and glossaries related to each canto within the poem. Other features that help you figure out this important work include

• Life and background of the poet and the poem
• Introduction to the poem's structure, allegory, symbols, and more
• Critical essays that explore deeper meanings within this challenging work
• A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics and practice projects
• A Resource Center full of books, translations, and Internet resources

Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Divine Comedy
Review: It is very compact. It contains everything you need to know. If you are in a hurry to complete your report, this is the very one.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: latin? please.
Review: Readers, please note: The two people who gave this negative reviews thought that The Inferno was written in Latin. It wasn't. Clearly, they read neither the Cliff's Note nor the book. Silly to write a review of a book that you know nothing about!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great to a point
Review: Great help but to much opinion. (lol) Let's just say I read this more than I read the book due to time restraints. This cliff's notes does help and I would recommend to anyone that is having problems understanding Dante's Inferno (a great book also!)

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Cliff Note review?!?!
Review: Well, it's odd to write a review for a set of Cliff Notes, but I'll make an exception in this case. People often equate buying Cliff Notes with kids who have to read a book and want to actually get OUT of reading the book. However, I bought Dante's Divine Comedy: The Inferno for leisure reading (actually I like the theological implications that Dante ponders in the writing of his poem) and the Cliff Notes have become quite useful. The Notes start out with a general background of Dante, giving a mini biography of the author. Throughout this sketch they allude to a number of instances in his life which will come into play in his work The Divine Comedy. They then go on with an overall synposis of The Inferno. After that they go into a full-out commentary on the work itself.

I picked up the Cliff Notes at the same time I bought my copy of The Divine Comedy. Why? Well, I didn't want to miss a thing. I read for fun, but I also try with the books I truly enjoy, to read critically. Knowing that the copy of The Inferno was actually a translation from the latin meant that since I cannot read latin, that there would be certain nuances of the language that I may miss out on when reading it in english. Hence, I am relying on the Cliff Notes (which I read AFTER I finish a particular section) to point out these instances to me. I can then go back and re-read the section and gain the deeper insight into the poem itself. Used as a supplement (not as the source itself, which unfortunately happens with many users of Cliff Notes) this has proven to be a nice tool. It is by no means absolutely necessary (my copy of The Inferno comes with its own commentary... I have the Bantam issue of Dante's Divine Comedy) but it is nice to have on hand when there are sections that are a bit 'heavy'. I will not go into the book itself here in this review, since this is the Cliff Notes, but instead I'll tackle that in a review of the book itself. Overall, I think the Cliff Notes are a nice addition, something to have next to the armchair when reading the actual book. The only downside... the Cliff Notes cost almost as much ($4.95) as the book itself ($5.95).

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Review Summary: Great peice of literature, very well written poetry
Review: An awesome book that tells about Dante's trip through Hell, with a very famous guide named Virgil. Not exactly docternal, but good imagination. He incorperates many of the people he knew, or who were famous then into the story. It makes you want to learn Latin so you can read it without translation.

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