The Dante Club
Author: Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realised paean to Dante’s continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that surprises from beginning to end.Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante’s vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club – poets an….Read More
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