The Dante Club
by Pearl, Matthew
Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997, and in 2000 from Yale Law School, where he wrote the first draft of The Dante Club. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of Dante’s Inferno, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dante Club is his first novel. He can be reached via his website, www.thedanteclub.com.
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On Feb 13, 2015, Anonymous said
"The Dante Club" is a historical fiction novel laced in the mystery-thriller genre. Historical fiction books are some of my favorite. Matthew Pearl did a wonderful job piecing together this novel. You have a literary group (consisting of three poets, a historian and a publisher) working against odds to translate Dante's "Divine Comedy" in order to bring it to America for the first time ever. In the process of this, someone is going around killing people referencing the book. The group, along with one of the first African American policemen in Boston, are trying to solve the mystery together. I enjoyed how everything fell into place in the end showing that there were keys through-out the book. It also shines a light of real issues of that era. I look forward to reading more of Matthew Pearls books.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks. Softcover. Very Good. Dante Club" (ISBN: 9780812971040): "Dante Club" is a captivating historical mystery that weaves together the worlds of literature and crime-solving in 19th-century Boston. Author Matthew Pearl takes readers into the midst of a group of literary luminaries, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who are translating Dante's "Inferno" into… Read more about this item Item Price
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Random House, 2003. First book by this author, bestseller and critically acclaimed, historical mystery story of the Dante Club which includes among its members, Longfellow, Whitman, O. W. Holmes, and Lowell. They try to discover the killer who is murdering according to events from Dante's Inferno. There's a scrape at the corner of the dustjacket and at the… Read more about this item Item Price
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