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The Dante Club Matthew Pearl
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

You could classify The Dante Club loosely as historical fiction. Fields who collectively call themselves The Dante Club. Local residents have come together to help aid victims of the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy that took place on Monday. "The clock chimed the hour and Greene stirred, but there was no need for further intercourse:The Dante Club had been reborn"(116). Helping him are fellow poets Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell, as well as pastor George Washington Greene and publisher J.T. A special meeting was held on Thursday afternoon at the Dante Club. I picked this book up in Tel Aviv two weeks ago, anticipating to kill some time on the train back home and the flight to Boston on the next day. There is a short reference to this tragedy in The Dante Club, but I must have read about it somewhere else. I thought this quote was important because it is a turning point in the book. I knew the basic premise for this book, gravitated back to it because of my current interest in 19th c. Or perhaps, try historical-fantasy-fiction-literary-murder-mystery. Book Review: Review by Vesna McMaster (JUN 30, 2011). The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl A quick summary stolen from back cover: Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno.