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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) |
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 | : | First 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.Rating Containing Books The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1)
Ratings: 3.39 From 36331 Users | 2432 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Dante Club (The Dante Club #1)
A cool premise mired in humdrumery and bludgemongering. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and their publisher J.T. Fields comprise the Dante Club, a group of Harvard scholars who are attempting to birth the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. As they near completion of their work, a serial killer is on the loose in Boston, copying scenes from the Inferno into grisly murders of some of the city's most notable citizens. The Dante Club,Pearl is a good writer and the theme is engrossing for those familiar with Dante's magnum opus. However, the author's smug tone and obvious conviction of his own brilliance married my enjoyment of what could have been a perfectly acceptable literary mystery. I could also have done without the cheap-horror graphics of victims being eaten by insects etc regarding the various colorful murders, but I suppose Pearl was trying to convey some of the feeling of revulsion invoked by the torments
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
The Dante Club is a wonderful debut novel from Matthew Pearl. It is the story of the Fireside Poets - Henry Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell - who initially form the Dante Club to assist Longfellow in finishing the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's Commedia Divina.The book starts off with the gruesome murder of Judge Healy, probably the most intense beginning to any book I've ever had the pleasure of reading. The reader finds Healy left out in his own back yard,
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
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 wish I had spent my time reading Dante's "Inferno" rather than wasting my precious hours on "The Dante Club." I usually give a book 50 pages and if it doesn't grab me by then, I stop reading it. In spite of the fact that this one failed my 50 page test miserably, I was determined to finish it because it was a book club pick, so I forced myself to read one chapter every day--a grueling chore from beginning to end. Matthew Pearl writes what is part murder mystery and part historical fiction
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