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Ben Foster has signed on to star in the Inferno film adaptation. Foster’s character, a villainous scientist named Bertrand Zobrist, has an obsession with Dante Alighieri’s famous poem.

This project, based on Dan Brown’s 2013 novel, marks the return of Tom Hanks as the symbologist Robert Langdon. Ron Howard, the director behind both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, will also come back to take the helm.

Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, and Irrfan Khan also are in the cast. The story sees Langdon drawn into a conspiracy to unleash a deadly plague centered on Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ the 14th century epic poem about the nine circles of hell.” Click here to download a free eBook of The Divine Comedy.

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Until March 24, you can download a free digital copy of The Da Vinci Code that includes the prologue and first chapter of Dan Brown‘s upcoming Inferno. While exploring the excerpt, we found a few clues that will help readers prepare for Inferno‘s May 14th release.

The short sample shows Brown’s hero Robert Langdon dreaming about “a writhing pair of legs, which protruded upside down from the earth, apparently belonging to some poor soul who had been buried headfirst to his waist.”

This is clearly a reference to Inferno, Dante Alighieri‘s 14th century epic poem that inspired the new book. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, you can download a free copy of the Inferno complete with annotations. Read the relevant section of the poem below…

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Megabestselling author Dan Brown will return with a new novel on May 14th. Inferno will revolve around Dante Alighieri‘s epic poem, Inferno. You can download a free illustrated eBook copy of Inferno.

Like The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code, the book will feature the adventures of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group will print four million copies initially.

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What’s your favorite kind of book? We’ve created a giant flowchart to help you browse the top 50 free eBooks at Project Gutenberg.

Click the image above to see a larger version of the book map. Your choices range from Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, from Sherlock Holmes to needlework. Below, we’ve linked to all 50 free eBooks so you can start downloading right now. The books are available in all major eBook formats.

Follow this link to see an online version of the flowchart, complete with links to the the individual books.

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