| 1. |  | The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
from NAL Trade
Price: $12.24
Customer Review:
Way better than the classroom set using easy to understand language and tons of references and footnotes! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
from Modern Library
Price: $7.88
Customer Review:
Choosing which translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to read is a very subjective and personal question. Any translation involves balancing the meaning, feel, and artistry of the work, normally at the expense of at least one of these qualities. A major consideration is the topic of rhyme. The Divine... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
from Everyman's Library
Customer Review:
In a lot of ways this novel written in 1958 reads like Jane Austin
for me: the manners are of another time
and the customs are very much Latin.
It there a hidden policy here or just a comment on the changing of times? About the changing of the guard he say:" ... that process of... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
from Everyman's Library
Price: $16.50
Customer Review:
After receiving my copy of The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library), I mentally prepared myself for a battle; as I have read numerous times that this piece of literature is very difficult to read. Indeed, it is not a light read, but this Everyman's edition of Allen... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Invisible Cities
from Harvest Books
Price: $10.67
Customer Review:
Though exceedingly short (166 pages), Invisible Cities by the author Italo Calvino is so densely constructed that it takes just as long, if not longer to understand, much less even finish the book than it would normally with a three hundred page novel. Indeed, after finishing Calvino's work I'm... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Shape of Water (Salvo Montalbano Mysteries)
from Viking Adult
Customer Review:
This was a fast-moving thriller set in a fictional Sicilian town. The author is Italian, and his hero is a local police chief, Salvo Montalbano. Unlike other crime fiction that is set in Italy but written by foreigners, this stuff is more down to earth and skips a lot of the pretty description and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | Name of the Rose
from Warner Books
Customer Review:
I am not much of a suspense/thriller fan, but this book captivated me completely, probably because it is not our contemporary "suspense" fiction. Obviously, it is extremely well written with vivid and lively scenes and characters, but also it is written on solid and skillfully layered foundations of... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Paper Moon (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
from Wheeler Publishing
Price: $25.95
Customer Review:
Inspector Montalbano wakes this time not by his inner alarm clock but from one he now sets each night to wake him prompt each morning. His usual slapstick routine of starting the day had fallen by the wayside, irrelevant random thoughts had been plaguing his mind, with a touch of forgetfulness,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Foucault's Pendulum
from Mariner Books
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
This has to be the worst book I have ever read. One of the other reviewers talked about the necessity of having a dictionary at hand - that is an understatement. The book is written at an intellectual and vocabulary level well beyond that of most college graduates - including those holding advanced... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Cosmicomics
from Harvest Books
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
Ever since our ancestors started looking into the night sky, the saw patterns and connections between the stars, moons and planets, and used stories and myths to imbue those patterns with meaning and structure. With the big hindsight of the scientific worldview, all those ancient stories may seem... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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