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The Dante Club
by Pearl, Matthew
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375505296
- ISBN 13
- 9780375505294
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2003. Signed by author on title page Stated First Edition, but not a first printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 372 pages From jacket: "In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses 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 - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor." Edgewear to jacket, numbers written on inside front jacket flap; crease to inside back jacket flap; small spot on back of jacket and bottom of last few pages. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997, and in 2000 from Yale Law School, where he wrote the first draft of The Dante Club . In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of Dante’s Inferno , translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dante Club is his first novel. He can be reached via his website, www.thedanteclub.com.
Reviews
On Feb 13 2015, a reader said:
"The Dante Club" is a historical fiction novel laced in the mystery-thriller genre. Historical fiction books are some of my favorite. Matthew Pearl did a wonderful job piecing together this novel. You have a literary group (consisting of three poets, a historian and a publisher) working against odds to translate Dante's "Divine Comedy" in order to bring it to America for the first time ever. In the process of this, someone is going around killing people referencing the book. The group, along with one of the first African American policemen in Boston, are trying to solve the mystery together. I enjoyed how everything fell into place in the end showing that there were keys through-out the book. It also shines a light of real issues of that era. I look forward to reading more of Matthew Pearls books.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005622
- Title
- The Dante Club
- Author
- Pearl, Matthew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0375505296
- ISBN 13
- 9780375505294
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- signed; autographed; First Edition; novel; Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Novels; Signed; First Editions;
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