Description: Dante Club : A Novel by Matthew Pearl (2004, Trade Paperback). The book in the pictures is the one you'll get. Feel free to ask any questions and thanks for looking! "In 1865 Boston, the members 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 and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves will prove as corrupting as the immigrants living in Boston Harbor. As they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's torturous punishments. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicolas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever could have imagined. The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on the imagination."
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Book Title: Dante Club : a Novel
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Item Length: 5 in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 8 in
Personalized: No
Features: Unabridged
Topic: Mystery & Detective / Historical, Thrillers / Historical, Historical
Item Width: 2 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Trade Paperback
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Historical Fiction
Era: 2000s
Illustrator: No one
Author: Matthew Pearl
Genre: Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 6 oz
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
