Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, poet, scholar, playwright and Christian apologist, spent the last fourteen years of her life reading and translating Dante's Divine Comedy. The first two volumes of her translation, Hell and Purgatory, were published during her lifetime, but when she died in 1957 the third volume, Paradise, was unfinished. It was completed by her friend Barbara Reynolds.
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Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, poet, scholar, playwright and Christian apologist, spent the last fourteen years of her life reading and translating Dante's Divine Comedy. The first two volumes of her translation, Hell and Purgatory, were published during her lifetime, but when she died in 1957 the third volume, Paradise, was unfinished. It was completed by her friend Barbara Reynolds.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xvii, 267. Original publisher's yellow cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, scholar and Christian apologist, spent the last 14 years of her life translating Dante's "Divine Comedy". This book examines this stage of Sayers' life and draws on reminiscences and letters to shed new light on her intellectual and spiritual development. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page, "To Jill Paton Walsh, one completer to another, from, Barbara Reynolds." Ownership signature on the front endpaper of Jill Paton Walsh who carried on Dorothy L. Sayers' novels. ISBN: 0873383737 Very good indeed in very good dust jacket.
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Like New. Size: 6x1x9; Kent State University Press, 1989. Hard cover, first edition; signed and inscribed by author. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket; 267 pages.
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