Inferno: The Descent

Thirty-four cantos through the nine circles of Hell with Virgil as guide. Dante wrote the Inferno in exile, describing a journey he believed had really happened, through a moral geography so precise and so human that every circle feels like somewhere you have already been. One canto a day, thirty-four days. Cary's translation, which Keats carried everywhere and called the best thing in the language after Shakespeare.

Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.