Hell
Contributors: Dorothy L. Sayers (Introduction, Translator)
Series: The Divine Comedy
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: June 30, 1950
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: L’inferno
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140440065
First sentence: THE STORY. Dante finds that he has strayed from the right road and is lost in a Dark Wood.
Notes: The original Penguin paperback edition (first printing) of 1950 was issued with a dust-jacket which replicates the design of the book cover. There is publishers' blurb on the d/j front fold and some press comments re other volumes in the Penguin Classics series on the rear fold. The book, on issue, sold at 2s 6d.