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Talk about high concept: in Pearl's debut novel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell team up with 19th-century publisher J.T. Fields to catch a serial killer in post-Civil War Boston. It's the fall of 1865, and Harvard University, the cradle of Bostonian intellContinue
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mostlyfiction published on Fri, 1 Jul 2011
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The Dante Club
Shotsmag Reviews - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl The Dante Club is Matthew Pearl's first novel, but not his first foray into the world of publishing. He is currently editing and releasing Dante's COMEDY, and his passion for the work shines through ... (read full critics)
shotsmag published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010
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We follow several literary big wigs around Boston during 1865 and their adventures with translating Dante into English. That doesn't sound too exciting in itself; however, someone has started murdering people in the fashion of Dante. The Dante Club now has the task of finding out who "Lucifer" reall ... (continue)
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Dinstinct in the writing styles which are beautiful on their own rights and being 150 years apart in the backdrop settings, the rule of four and the Dante club bear a lot of common themes: mysterious literary legacies from Renaissance Florence created by men both condemned by their contemporaries, ... (continue)
meowmeow said on Feb 5, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 400 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0812971043
- ISBN-13: 9780812971040
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Feb 10, 2004
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl
Review by Vesna McMaster (JUN 30, 2011) You could classify The Dante Club loosely as historical fiction. Or perhaps, try historical-fantasy-fiction-literary-murder-mystery. It’s definitely a work to be enjoyed by “literary types,” but also by thrill- ... (read full critics)