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Matthew pearl keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition. I enjoyed this, but the writing style made for a somewhat difficult read. David liss, edgar awardwinning author of a conspiracy of paper. The dante chamber is a followup to the dante club but can be read in any order. Matthew pearl does a marvelous job of evoking the period and making it come alive with finely drawn characters and an ingenious story. Longfellow, holmes, lowell and their friends came together once a week to read and discuss dante and dante s relevance to their lives. This is the setting for matthew pearl s ambitious novel, the dante club mr. The bard gave the new world not only its first taste of the italian poet but, with oliver wendell holmes and james russell lowell, its first dante society. In the dante club, matthew pearl expertly combines rollicking entertainment with serious insights about civil warera america. The book is set in the 1860s, and focuses around a group of poets. The dante club is a mystery novel by matthew pearl and his debut work, set amidst a series of.
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