where can i get a dante's inferno and plato's allegory of the cave essay?

Answer 1

Project Gutenberg offers the entire e-text of the Inferno here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/997

Here's the Allegory of the Cave:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/plato.html

If you want all of Plato's Republic, from which "The Cave" is drawn, Project Gutenberg has that too:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1497

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