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which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written: Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno

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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine Fiction_Gift_Guide ’ Clem said to herA revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Irelands most infamous disaster. Vigorous and engaging. Fintan OToole, The New Yorker In 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blights devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers a new