{"product_id":"dante-club-book-matthew-pearl-9780812971040","title":"The Dante Club","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * Before \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Chamber,\u003c\/i\u003e there was \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e: \"an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e to vivid, even unsettling life.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what's not to love?\"--Dan Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOrigin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Boston, 1865. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing the infiltration of foreign superstitions to be as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But as the members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in the New World at stake, the members of the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Ingenious . . . [Matthew Pearl] keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition.\"\u003cb\u003e--Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Not just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the U.S. in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Club's own descent into hell, Mr. Pearl's book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[Pearl] ably meshes the . . . literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the historical figures. . . . A divine mystery.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (Page-turner of the Week)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An erudite and entertaining account of Dante's violent entrance into the American canon.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A hell of a first novel . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e delivers in spades. . . . Pearl has crafted a work that maintains interest and drips with nineteenth-century atmospherics.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49755881079057,"sku":"GOR007627886","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49778464030993,"sku":"CIN0812971043G","price":3.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368460980497,"sku":"CIN0812971043A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50784952090897,"sku":"GOR011675367","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51279108309265,"sku":"NIN9780812971040","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51574686777617,"sku":"GOR010060382","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105190539537,"sku":"CIN0812971043VG","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53585022779665,"sku":"GOR011311338","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812971043.jpg?v=1751076070","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/dante-club-book-matthew-pearl-9780812971040","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}