An excerpt from Dan Brown's new novel "Inferno" PROLOGUE I am the Shade. Through the dolent city, I flee. Through the eternal woe, I take flight. Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble ...

"Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. [...] Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal ...