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Title: The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Gustave Dore ISBN: 0-486-23231-X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb
Comment: It is incumbent upon the reader of this book to have read Dante's DIVINE COMEDY at least once. If there is no familiarity with that masterpiece before-hand, little will be gained by browsing thru these wonderful pages.
For those who are intimate with Dante, this present book is a can't miss. As an illustrated guide thru hell, purgatory and heaven, the plates will recall to the mind of the reader the sundry circles, punishments, torments and rewards depicted in the poem.
For all who love the COMEDY, this is your chance to allow Dore to help you visualize your journey thru the cosmic afterlife with the likes of our friends, Dante the Pilgrim and Virgil the poet. As an added bonus, there are tercets depicting the scenes drawn by Dore on every page.
After getting this edition, I'm now interested in getting his illustrations of Milton's PARADISE LOST as well. For those who browse thru these pages, I would HIGHLY recommend listening to Loreena McKennitt's song DANTE's PRAYER while you do so. It is off of her album THE BOOK OF SECRETS (ASIN: B000002NHN), also available @ Amazon.com.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gustave Dore's superb engravings for Dante's classic work
Comment: I have a horrible confession to make: I much prefer to look at Gustave Dore's fantastic and grotesque scenes depicting Dante's "Divine Comedy" with just appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation then have to deal with all those tercets. Even worse, I think these 135 illustrations from the 1861 edition comprise Dore's best body of work, even better than his famous Bible illustrations completed five years later, mainly because I think Dore's style is better suited to the depths of Hell and the realms of Purgatory, rather than the stories of the Bible. Clearly Dore found his kindred soul mate in Dante and even though he did classic engravings to illustrate everything from "Don Quixote" to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," this is his monumental achievement. Many admirers like the plates depicting the souls writhing in the fiery torments of Hell, but my favorite has to do with the lower level of hell where Dante and Virgil encounter the souls frozen in ice (Canto XXXII). This Dover edition is relatively inexpensive, which means the paper quality is geared towards economy rather than reproduction, but I think that it a satisfactory tradeoff, all things considered.
Rating: 5
Summary: wow!
Comment: Excellent artwork that comes to life very well. I really felt Dante in Dore's works.
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Title: DoreÂs Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" by Gustave Dore ISBN: 0486277194 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Dore Bible Illustrations by Gustave Dore ISBN: 048623004X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1974 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Divine Comedy: The Inferno/the Purgatorio/the Paradiso by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Dante Alighieri, Dante ISBN: 0451208633 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Divine Comedy : Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume) by Dante ISBN: 0679433139 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 28 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: DoreÂs Illustrations of the Crusades by Gustave Dore ISBN: 0486295974 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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