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A New York Times BestsellerWords can bleed.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.The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but 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 Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined.The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.From the Hardcover edition.
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Fiction, Appreciation, Insects, Authors, Boston (Mass.), Suspense fiction, HistoryPeople
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)Places
Boston (Mass.)Times
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Danding ju le bu
2006, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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Danding ju le bu
2005, Shi ji chu ban ji tuan, Shanghai ren min chu ban she
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Dantʻe kʻŭllŏp = The Dante club
2004, Hwanggŭm Kaji
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The Dante Club
2003, Random House Publishing Group
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1588363104 9781588363107
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Originally published: New York: Random House, 2003.
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