Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri

The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery   Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi...

The Overstory

Richard Powers

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...