The Dante Club : a novel / Matthew Pearl.
2004
Pearl
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Title
The Dante Club : a novel / Matthew Pearl.
Author
Edition
Random House trade pbk. ed.
ISBN
0812971043 paperback
9780812971040 paperback
9780812971040 paperback
Publication Details
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004, c2003.
Language
English
Description
ix, 380 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
Pearl
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
Boston. 1865. The Dante club, a small group of literary geniuses, prepares America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. Their plans come to a halt when a series of murders erupt in a style and form stolen directly from Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered, and Dante's future at stake, the Club must shed its sheltered existence and find the killer.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno."
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno."
Note
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2003. With new reader's guide.
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