Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One, Englished in Prosaic Verse and Decorated by Alasdair Gray

It took Alasdair Gray, “[t]he best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott” (Anthony Burgess), more than thirty years to write Lanark, described by The Observer as “probably the greatest novel of the century.” Upon its publication in the U.S. in 1985, The New York Times described it, in its Notable Books year—end review, as “a quirky, crypto—Calvinist Divine Comedy" that "should be widely read.” Now, more than thirty years later, Gray has translated and illustrated the Divine Comedy itself...