The Dante Club [FIRST EDITION]
by PEARL, Matthew [SIGNED]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0375505296
- ISBN 13
- 9780375505294
- Seller
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About This Item
Jacket edges are a bit scuffed, and there is a crease on top left corner of front jacket cover. Autograph sticker on front jacket cover. Signed by author on title page.
This is a signed first edition of Pearl's bestselling historical mystery.
Synopsis
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 . In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of Dante’s Inferno , translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dante Club is his first novel. He can be reached via his website, www.thedanteclub.com.
Reviews
"The Dante Club" is a historical fiction novel laced in the mystery-thriller genre. Historical fiction books are some of my favorite. Matthew Pearl did a wonderful job piecing together this novel. You have a literary group (consisting of three poets, a historian and a publisher) working against odds to translate Dante's "Divine Comedy" in order to bring it to America for the first time ever. In the process of this, someone is going around killing people referencing the book. The group, along with one of the first African American policemen in Boston, are trying to solve the mystery together. I enjoyed how everything fell into place in the end showing that there were keys through-out the book. It also shines a light of real issues of that era. I look forward to reading more of Matthew Pearls books.
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- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1190
- Title
- The Dante Club [FIRST EDITION]
- Author
- PEARL, Matthew [SIGNED]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375505296
- ISBN 13
- 9780375505294
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
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