The Dante Club is a mystery novel published by Matthew Pearl in It is also a work of historical fiction set during the American Civil War, featuring many real historical figures as characters. In Boston, Police Chief John Kurtz investigates the brutal and bizarre murder of Supreme Court Justice Artemus Healey. Ghost Story and (with Stephen King) Black House. "In THE DANTE CLUB, Matthew Pearl expertly combines rollicking entertainment with serious insights about Civil War-era America. The book is fun, smart, and enviably audacious." Darin Strauss, award-winning author of. · The Dante Club. by Matthew Pearl. In Dante Alighieri's THE DIVINE COMEDY was almost banned in Boston. History tells us that Harvard College's academic community worked feverishly to prevent the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first American translation of .
Matthew Pearl is not a "one novel wonder." He has the ability and intellectual dexterity to bring forth the kinds of large fictions nineteenth century readers were accustomed to books in which an individual could immerse her/himself and come away stimulated with new ideas. And so it is with THE DANTE CLUB, a very important book. The Dante Club is a good historical mystery written by Matthew Pearl. In , 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. The Dante Club delivers in spades."-David Lazarus, The San Francisco Chronicle "The Dante Club is a thoroughly accomplished first novel. Matthew Pearl does a marvelous job of evoking the period and making it come alive with finely drawn characters and an ingenious story."-David Liss, Edgar Award-winning author of A Conspiracy of Paper.
Boston A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante’s vision of Hell to America. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent collectible copy of this great work of literature by Matthew Pearl. Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in , and in from Yale Law School, where he wrote the first draft of The Dante Club. In , he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work.
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