The Dante Club : A Novel (Paperback)

from mrtall

The Dante Club is a clever book, based on a clever premise (19th-century Boston literary lights translate Dante and play sleuth when a killer starts inflicting punishments from the Inferno on local bigshots), and it's written by a clever young man. This book has been highly praised, but I think i...

from christiguc

In post civil war Boston, a group of literary figures forms a club to prepare an English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in order to introduce Dante to America. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J. T. Fields (James Thomas Fields), and George Washingt...

from LisaMaria_C

This book sounded like it would appeal to me for several reasons. It's a mix of genres--historical fiction and mystery--like two favorite books of mine, The Alienist and The Name of the Rose. Like The Alienist, it incorporates real historical figures; like The Name of the Rose it involves connect...

from nbmars

The Dante Club purports to recreate the atmosphere of the immediate post-Civil War New England literary establishment. Further, it appears that there really was an immediate post-Civil War New England literary establishment, comprising [inter alia] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holme...

from sweetiegherkin

On the heels of the Civil War's end, a number of grisly murders begin occurring near Boston. These murders are not only shocking in their cruelty but also because the victims are chief citizens of the town (a judge, a minister, etc.) -- not the usual targets of miscreants. At the same time, some ...