The Dante Club : a novel
In 1865 Boston, the Dante Club which consists of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J.T. Fields are finishing America's first translation of Dante's Divine comedy, but unfortunately the Boston Brahmins at Harvard College want to keep Dante in obscurity. The situation escalates when a series of murders erupts throughout Boston and Cambridge, modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishment from Dante's...
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