The Dante Club
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House
- Publish date: 02/01/2003
Description:
In 1865 Boston, a small group of literary geniuses is putting the finishing touches on America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante out, believing that such foreign superstitions would prove as corrupting as the foreign immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members 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 -- endure the intimidation of their fellow Boston Brahmins for a sacred literary cause.
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But the plans of the Dante Club come to a screeching halt when a series of gruesome murders erupts through Boston. Only the scholars realize that the style and form of the killings are derived from Inferno and its singular account of Hell's punishments. With the police baffled, lives endangered, and Dante's literary fixture at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on the artistic imagination.
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