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The Dante Club (Hardcover)
by Matthew Pearl (Author), C. Lewis Watkins (Preface)
3.3 out of 5 stars  (25 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375505296
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375505294
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 541,114 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description
The Advertiser, March 13, 2004
"If you liked The Name of the Rose, The Dante Club is your book... In a word: unputdownable." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Times Literary Supplement, January 30, 2004
"Pearl's scholarly background is evident in the erudite detail he weaves into his fictional narrative, adding texture and complexity" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "I do not profess to understand this strange pattern, but we cannot escape its implication", 17 Dec 2006
By M. Alcat "bel_78" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dante Club (Paperback)
"The Dante Club", Matthew Pearl's first novel, is the kind of book that manages to combine suspense, history and literature successfully, engaging the reader and making him care about what is going to happen next.

The story takes place in 1865 Boston, where a group of friends that include poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes and poet James Russell Lowell, among others, decide to form a Dante Club in order to produce an English translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy". Many people are against this endeavour, as they believe Dante's "Divine Comedy" to be dangerous reading material, but our academics are steadfast in their devotion to Dante. However, they begin to get nervous when a madman that seems to be delivering the punishments Dante Alighieri talks about in his "Inferno" (= "Hell", one of the three books in which the "Divine Comedy" is divided) starts killing people in Boston. Trying to avoid a death blow to Dante's reputation even before the American public can read his translated works, the members of t