Matthew Pearl
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| Original Title: | The Dante Club |
| ISBN: | 034549038X (ISBN13: 9780345490384) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Dante Club #1 |
| Characters: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, James Thomas Fields, George Washington Greene, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Nicholas Rey |
| Setting: | Boston, Massachusetts,1865(United States) Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award Nominee (2004) |
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A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, 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 and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.
The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but 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 America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
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| Title | : | The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1) |
| Author | : | Matthew Pearl |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 424 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2006 by Ballantine Books (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Crime. Mystery Thriller |
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This marvelous book is a superlative example of numerous genres: historical fiction and mystery being two examples. While the premise of engaging famous historical figures in a mystery is intriguing, Pearl never allows this element to drive the narrative. His characterizations of Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell are so brilliant, the reader forgets that they are icons of literary history, and views them as intense and vivacious fictional characters. This is not beach-reading, but instead anNot going to star this book because I couldn't finish it. I'm sure the mystery is great once the mystery gets going, but the author spends a lot of time on the set up of the poets, and I couldn't get into it. Hoping to go back and try again some time.
The book reached number 1 on Border's, Washington Post, and Boston Globe best seller lists, and also New York Times Best Seller List. The genre is fictional mystery.This book has a strong relation with Dante's DIVINA COMEDIA (Divine Comedy).You don't have to read the Divine Comedy first in order to understand this novel. But if you do already read Divine Comedy, it's very good, because you can have deep understanding about what is DANTE all about.This novel is about a killer that doing his/her
I don't know why I've even read this book. What I expected ?Well, let's count: Dante, it's obvious. And some great american poets solving mystery crimes in Boston. Oh, and 19th-century Boston itself. Sounds good, isn't it ? Such a good topic and what ? Nothing. Boredom, overwhelming boredom and some disgust. To paraphrase Poe boredom there and nothing more . Agreed, only Boston emerged unscathed from it. I'd better re-read Divine Comedy instead of this rubbish. I read somewhere about
Combining a host of literary figures with a well known literary work such as Dantes Comedy, and a murder mystery, seems like a sure shot way to entertain, educate and enlighten via the novel. Also a guarantee of best-seller status.Matthew Pearl has hit on this formula and his first three books cover Dante, Poe and Dickens mixed in with the dark shadows of a whodunit in each. In The Dante Club, his debut, we are introduced to literary luminaries such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver
I was at a show (as in indie rock, guitar and drums and beer) in a faraway city [this did not happen in Seattle, although you would expect it to, since this town is so flippin' small], it was past midnight, I think it was the 8th or 9th band we had seen that day, and a person who had joined our group, who I had never met before, was wearing a tee shirt that said "So many books, Not enough time" or something like that, and we were waiting for the band to start so I said, so, what book are your
Historical mystery set in 19th century Boston. A series of gruesome murders inspired by the punishments in Dante's Inferno is terrifying the people of Boston. Meanwhile the poets Longfellow and Lowell are fighting a battle against the governing body of Harvard who are resisting their attempts to bring Dante to the attention of Americans. The two poets, plus Oliver Wendell Holmes and publisher JT Fields, apply their literary skills to solving the murders and tracking down the killer.Interesting
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