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8) Evangeline
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1895
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Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. The poem then follows Evangeline across the landscapes of America as she spends years in a search for him, and sometimes being near to Gabriel without realizing he was near.
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2015
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In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, “Paul Revere's Ride,” was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston,...
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2007
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and represents the soul's journey towards God. This edition includes the complete texts of Dante's Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso. Inferno - Inferno begins with Dante lost in a dark wood, assailed by beasts he cannot evade, and unable to find the straight way to salvation. Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a dark place, Dante is at last...
12) Twice-told tales
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1851
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“Twice-Told Tales” is a collection of allegorical short stories. These weird and wonderful tales are saturated with figurative, supernatural and symbolic themes. These are among Hawthorne's best stories that reveal the hidden gloominess of man.
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2003
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Dante Alighieri's poetic depictions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Gilded Editions line. Following Dante's journey through the afterlife, The Divine Comedy is a pseudo-autobiographical poetic narrative consisting of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. An in-depth imagining of these celestial kingdoms, The Divine Comedy has been hailed as the "best book literature has...
14) The inferno
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1954
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Publisher's description: Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically...