Dante Club

Resumen del libro

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 and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions will prove as corrupting as the immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members of the Dante Club fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realises that the gruesome killings are modelled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno.

Biografía del autor

Matthew Pearl es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales El club Dante y La sombra de Poe. Pearl está graduado por la Universidad de Harvard y en la escuela de Derecho de Yale y ha dado clases de literatura en la Universidad de Harvard y en la de Emerson. Actualmente vive en Cambridge, Massachussets.