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IS A CAREFULLY PLOTTED, ^ IMAGINATIVELY SHAPED, AND STYLISTICALLY CREDIBLE WHODUNIT OF UNUSUAL CLASS AND INTELLECT THE WRITING IS PASSIONATE, THE NARRATIVE DRIVEN." -THE BOSTON GLOBE
' fj oston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired
I by scenes in Dantes Inferno, Only an elite group of
Americas first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante -Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
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"Not just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the United States in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Clubs own descent into hell, Mr. Pearls book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Ably meshes the literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the...
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IS A CAREFULLY PLOTTED, ^ IMAGINATIVELY SHAPED, AND STYLISTICALLY CREDIBLE WHODUNIT OF UNUSUAL CLASS AND INTELLECT THE WRITING IS PASSIONATE, THE NARRATIVE DRIVEN." -THE BOSTON GLOBE
' fj oston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired
I by scenes in Dantes Inferno, Only an elite group of
Americas first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante -Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.
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"Not just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the United States in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Clubs own descent into hell, Mr. Pearls book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Ably meshes the literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the historical figures a divine mystery."
—People (starred review)
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