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The Dante Club

by Matthew Pearl
$9.90
The Dante Club
The Dante Club

Historical thriller intertwining Dante's influence and murder.

If you're intrigued by historical intricacies and literary giants coming to life, "The Dante Club" is a rare find. As those Harvard intellectuals translate a masterwork, they're ensnared in a sinister plot that mirrors the very hell they're transcribing. This confluence of historical authenticity and suspense will keep your mind engaged and your pulse racing – a treat for those who appreciate literary depth woven into their thrillers.

  • CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award Nominee (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Dante Club

by Matthew Pearl
$9.90
ISBN: 9780099465980
Authors: Matthew Pearl
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.42
(rated by 42211 readers)

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The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realised paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that surprises from beginning to end. Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions will prove as corrupting as the immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members of the Dante Club fight to keep their 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 realises that the gruesome killings are modelled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.
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Historical thriller intertwining Dante's influence and murder.

If you're intrigued by historical intricacies and literary giants coming to life, "The Dante Club" is a rare find. As those Harvard intellectuals translate a masterwork, they're ensnared in a sinister plot that mirrors the very hell they're transcribing. This confluence of historical authenticity and suspense will keep your mind engaged and your pulse racing – a treat for those who appreciate literary depth woven into their thrillers.

  • CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award Nominee (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.