Purgatory and Paradise

by Thomas Lee Howell

In the year 1300 the narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and thus "halfway along life's path". The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood in front of a mountain, assailed by three beasts (a lion, a leopard and a she-wolf) he cannot evade. Unable to find the "straight way" to salvation, he is conscious that he is ruining himself and falling into a "deep place" where the sun is silent. Dante is at last rescued by the Roman poet Virgil,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151206971X
• ISBN13: 9781512069716
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"