Boston Club

Pearl, Matthew: The Dante Club, New York Random House Trade Paperbacks 2004 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0812971043
0812971043 Very Good

ix, 380 pp., illus.; 21 cm. Includes: Reading Group Discussion Guide at the back. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club--poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields--are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor. The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a 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 realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined. The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end. / Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997, and in 2000 from Yale Law School, where he wrote the first draft of The Dante Club. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. He is also the editor of the new Modern Library edition of Dante's Inferno, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He grew up in Fort Lauderdale and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dante Club is his first novel." - Publisher. Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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[Boston Yacht Club]. Boston Yacht Club 1910 [Year Book]. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Yacht Club, 1910. ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Annual publication of the Boston Yacht Club, complete with membership lists, statistics on members' yachts, news about regattas, black and white photographic illustrations, much more. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering, club seal on front cover, color plates. Club House City Point - Not to be Removed printed in gilt on front cover. Light shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings..

First Edition, Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall, Very Good.

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[Boston Yacht Club]. Boston Yacht Club 1915 [Year Book]. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Yacht Club, 1915. ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Annual publication of the Boston Yacht Club, complete with membership lists, statistics on members' yachts, news about regattas, black and white photographic illustrations, much more. Olive cloth with gilt lettering, club seal on front cover, color plates. Club House Copy - Not to be Removed printed in gilt on front cover. Some shelfwear and rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings..

First Edition, Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall, Good.

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[Boston Yacht Club]. Boston Yacht Club 1911 [Year Book]. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Yacht Club, 1911. ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Annual publication of the Boston Yacht Club, complete with membership lists, statistics on members' yachts, news about regattas, black and white photographic illustrations, much more. Olive cloth with gilt lettering, club seal on front cover, color plates. Club House Copy - Not to be Removed printed in gilt on front cover. Light shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings..

First Edition, Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall, Very Good.

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