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Matthew pearls novels have been international and new york times bestsellers translated into more than 30 languages. Matthew pearl is the new york times bestselling author of the dante club, the poe shadow, the last dickens, the technologists, the last bookaneer, and the dante chamber, and the editor of the modern library editions of dantes inferno translated by henry wadsworth longfellow and edgar allan poes the murders in the rue morgue. It is the story of the fireside poets henry longfellow, oliver wendell holmes and james russell who initially form the dante club to assist longfellow in finishing the first american translation of dante alighieris commedia divina. Its a followup to my debut novel, the dante club, but you do not have to read one before the other, each stands on its own two feet. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in dantes inferno. In 1865 boston, the literary geniuses of the dante clubpoets and harvard professors henry wadsworth longfellow, dr. Only an elite group of americas first dante scholarshenry wadsworth longfellow, oliver wendell holmes, james russell lowell, and j. 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. With his own future hanging in the balance, quentin clark must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of poes. The new york times bestselling author of the international sensation, the dante clubwhich bring you to mid 19th century boston, where a brutal series of murderscan only be stopped by americas first scholars of dante. The dante club is a mystery novel by matthew pearl and his debut work, set amidst a series of murders in the american civil war era.
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