RIP Challenge Novel #3
Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club takes his readers on a journey into the historical land of the poets and Dante Club members and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and publisher J. T. Fields, who all become criminal investigators as various murders begin to take place that mimic Dante's Inferno.
What I appreciate the most about this piece of historical fiction is that I really learned something! Really.
Stylistically, this novel is written on a more advanced level than the young adult fiction of current times. While definitely not impossible for my students to read, this novel does take time to absorb, but it is time-well spent.
Pearl is the author The Poe Shadow (this will be my next read by him) and The Last Dickens...maybe a read for Christmas?
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