The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)

This is one of the greatest books I have ever read! Dorothy Sayers translation is incredible and she offers tremendous insight into past history and and provides much needed background to enjoy this timeless classic of the Western Canon. It is also easy to understand why Dante ranks high up in Western Canonical literature along with Virgil and Homer. What made the book enjoyable also was that, prior to purchase, I viewed online documentaries about Dante's Inferno which is what I would recommend but even then, you will not anticipate all of the actions of the book.

Read it within an inter, prospective and self application… It’ll change your life, At least your perspective

This is the Barbara Reynolds completion of the Dorothy Sayers translated edition that I thought far better.

Perfect. New books. All 3 came shipped together very quickly. Smooth and easy transaction. What online ordering should be.

I had Inferno and Purgatory, so I needed to complete this epic trilogy and I am proud to own these classics.

Excellent product, Arrived in a timely manner.

This is clearly the best translation and commentary on the DC. Even though the last 13 books of Paradiso were completed after Sayer's death, the overall work holds up to a very high standard.

Dante deserves 5 stars and the translators 4, but the current Kindle edition deserves 1. It seems to have been sloppily OCRed with little editorial attention. Problems include, 1. Ugly formatting (compared to the paper book). The verse numbers intrude into the text, the useful page headings are gone (except where they've been accidentally and intrusively included), and the indentation is inconsistent. On most devices it is hard to get lines to not wrap, but in the paper book this is handled well. 2. Typos/errors. Especially in the italicized comments at the beginning of each chapter. Clumsy, no attention to detail. 3. No table of contents and no good way to navigate between text, notes, and glossary. There should be *more* hyperlinking opportunities in the electronic text. But instead it's clumsier to use than the actual book, which responds well to thumb and finger. Also on the Kindle Touch anyway it's impossible to look up a phrase, for example to google "mosaic of Justinian at San Vitale" which was mentioned in the notes. I can't believe I paid $9.59 for such a barbarically edited book. Where are your standards, Penguin? It's distracting and disappointing.

The print is very small and the paper quality is dismal. I expected much better quality from Penguin Classics.

For anyone who hasn't read the 3 volumes of the Divine Comedy by Dante all I can say is try and enjoy! The notes enable the modern reader to understand some of the more obscure allusions but it is the enormous sweep of the story which carries the reader along. Dante is escorted through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in a nonstop journey to help him save his soul from damnation. The insights into the human mind and condition are just as valid for today as they were in the early 14th century! For instance, Dante has set a place in Hell for the flatterers and corrupters of language whom he knew well in his day. Today that place is probably full of spin doctors and advertising executives!

I love the interpretation and the plentiful notes. Dorothy Sayers and Barbara Reynolds did an excellent work. I appreciate this kind of passion.

The copy was an absolute defective and sadly amazon helpdesk was so RUDE.

The book came with pages not placed in the book