NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: â€œan ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieriâ€™s Inferno to

The Dante Club: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: â€œan ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieriâ€™s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.â€â€”The Boston Globe

â€œWith intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . whatâ€™s not to love?â€â€”Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin

Boston, 1865. The literary geniuses of the Dante Clubâ€”poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fieldsâ€”are finishing Americaâ€™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 Hellâ€™s punishments from Danteâ€™s Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Danteâ€™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.

Praise for The Dante Club

â€œIngenious . . . [Matthew Pearl] keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition.â€â€”Janet Maslin, The New York Times

â€œNot just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the U.S. in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Clubâ€™s own descent into hell, Mr. Pearlâ€™s book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œ[Pearl] ably meshes the . . . literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the historical figures. . . . A divine mystery.â€â€”People (Page-turner of the Week)

â€œAn erudite and entertaining account of Danteâ€™s violent entrance into the American canon.â€â€”Los Angeles Times

â€œA hell of a first novel . . . The Dante Club delivers in spades. . . . Pearl has crafted a work that maintains interest and drips with nineteenth-century atmospherics.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812971040
Color Tan
ReleaseDate 2004-02-10
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EANs 9780812971040

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812971040
Color	Tan
ReleaseDate	2004-02-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812971040

The Dante Club: A Novel

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