The Dante Club A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812971043
- ISBN 13
- 9780812971040
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About This Item
Boston, 1865. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club--poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields--are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing the infiltration of foreign superstitions to be as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.
But as the members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in the New World at stake, the members of the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ0446272
- Title
- The Dante Club A Novel
- Author
- Matthew Pearl
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812971043
- ISBN 13
- 9780812971040
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- February 10, 2004
- Keywords
- historical fiction, Boston, murder, mystery, dante, inferno
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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