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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)

The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1)

Matthew Pearl

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 424 pages

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Title	:	The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1)
Author	:	Matthew Pearl
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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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LOVED LOVED LOVED this book! I have to be honest, since I teach high school English and cover and teach the classics day in and day out, my at-home reading pursuits are typically of the "get lost in an easy read" variety. I picked this book up at a garage sale for $1.. the best buck I ever spent! The book is definitely a little more "high brow" in the context of the literary scene and some of the language and took me about 60 pages to really get into it, but then I was hooked completely. The

Save yourself some time and read Dante's "Inferno" instead.

I really liked this book . . . up until the closing chapters. I've read some other reviews on here, and, unlike most, I had no trouble getting through the first third of the book. I thought Pearl set up a great mystery . . . but when it came time to solve it, it seemed like he was in a hurry, and things got wrapped up rather neatly in a fashion that did not seem congruent with the rest of the book. That said, I certainly liked the premise, style of writing, and historical and literary

This novel is the reason you should never buy a book just because the cover says it's a New York Times Bestseller. It's a badly-constructed murder mystery set in Boston, in which a group of famous poets bands together to stop a series of murders inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy -- think Da Vinci Code, but with elderly characters who have an overdeveloped sense of self-importance and who aren't even terribly likable. The story also jumps back and forth through time without any warning, making it

This is not a long book, but it often felt that way. Verbose, densely-written, with constant references to the state of literature - and publishing - in Boston just after the end of the Civil War. It really helps if the reader has some knowledge of the history, location, and the social and political complexities of the time. Seriously, it often assumed we all know who Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and a few others are. Now I do know, but I still mixed

Oh boy, what to say about this book. I was looking on Amazon.com and it came up in my 'recommended for you' section. I clicked on it and found the summary to be interesting as well as the comments of those who already read the book. I borrowed it from a friend and absolutely could not get into it. Some parts were ok, but they were overwhelmed by parts that were not. I struggled through the first half of the book and found the plot to be moving slower than molasses. At that point I decided to

This is my third attempt to finish this. I kept getting pulled away from it and as it was so complicated, I could not just pick up where I left off. So, had to go back to the beginning.The setting is post-Civil War Boston. Popular 19th Century writers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Lowell, along with their publisher, Henry Fielding, are translating Dante's Inferno into English. At the same time, murders start occurring which mimic the punishments from the descending