Divine Comedy Archives - Confessions of a Readaholic

August 7, 2016

What did I read this week?

Current week is to an end and I am still not finished with Wilkie Collins’ WOMAN IN WHITE. Many say it’s his masterpiece but I am reading Collins for the first time and not even a hundred pages complete. It’s a mystery novel and has a Gothic theme with psychological realism which I am yet to explore. More this week, I had more than usual amount of free time and the amount of books I have to read is always, enormous. Thus to take the matter in my own hands and with blessings of time, I decided to binge reading...

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Books / Essay

January 4, 2015

What to learn from Dante’s Inferno?

Dante’s Inferno offers a great amount of lessons that are considered to be moral and necessary. Born in Florence to a noble family, and ended up spending almost half of his life in exile Dante presents The Divine Comedy which is believed an epic, with various moral lessons and taking a reader’s conscience in to his grateful imagination that is altogether a different world from what we are living and it’s basis are the same moral values we believe in. In the review, I talked about how iconic it is that a piece of literature like Dante’s can survive almost 700 years and reaching...

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Books / classics / Non-Fiction / Reviews

December 24, 2014

BOOK REVIEW: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Inferno by Dante Alighieri My rating: 5 of 5 stars Imagine that feeling, when you are reading a book and by the end it makes you feel complete. We all have observed that by one or the other book(s). Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno is one of them. Written almost 700 years ago, it still has the mesmerizing capacity to capture a human’s attention. It’s iconic for a literary work to survive a 700 years and Dante’s work has reached that status: most people at least know of the Inferno, even if they haven’t read it. Dante’s Inferno, the first third...

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Books

September 4, 2013

NEW BUYS- CLASSICS

Finally the most awaited order of this month has arrived. I was eagerly waiting for the below books from past four days, and they were giving me sleepless nights. They are in order: The Complete Father Brown Series by G. K. Chesterton Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Divine comedy: Inferno by Dante Fathers and Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton What do you guys have to say?