Matthew Pearl
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 424 pages Rating: 3.39 | 36331 Users | 2432 Reviews
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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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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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| 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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Ratings: 3.39 From 36331 Users | 2432 ReviewsRate Of Books The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1)
The Dante Club is a good historical mystery written by Matthew Pearl. In 1865, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the help of few other literary giants is at the task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy. Resistance arises from many corners to stop the "foreign literature" becoming part of the American literary culture. Then the crimes happen. The methods employed in the killings resemble the punishments described in Dantes Inferno. Is this another attempt to discredit the efforts of theAs a very self centered principle, I despise coffee that is not too strong or gone cold for it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This book gave me similar feelings. Built on a foundation of Boston in the 1850's, the lushly fertile literary backdrop of Harvard, historical figures of the like of Emerson, Henry Longfellow, Dante's Divine Comedy that develops into a string of murders....but all this combined brings a very dull thriller to the reading table.The author tries dropping a lot of heavy
So a major fan of literature, murder and mystery should love this book right? Well thats what I thought too but I struggled with this one and couldnt wait to finish it..Its not that the book isnt great or doesnt have potential it is just too verbose and tedious..The book has alot of words and descriptive passages and flashbacks that take away from the fast paced murder mystery aspect and it makes the book drag. On a happier note or perhaps a more morbid one there are some gruesome and well
I've had a couple of Matthew Pearl's historical mysteries on my book shelf for awhile now. I'm glad that I finally dusted off The Dante Club and read it. In some ways it reminded me of Caleb Carr's The Alienist. The book is set in the mid 1800's. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a select group of friends, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russel Lowell and J.T. Fields get together once a week to translate Dante's Inferno into English. This is not popular with the corporation that runs Harvard
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 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 an
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
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