{"product_id":"2940170712823","title":"The Dante Club (Abridged)","description":"Words Can Bleed. \u003cbr\u003e In 1865 Boston, the members 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves will prove as corrupting as the immigrants living in Boston Harbor. \u003cbr\u003e As they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's torturous punishments. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. \u003cbr\u003e Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicolas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever could have imagined. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on the imagination.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102494146800,"sku":"2940170712823","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170712823_p0.jpg?v=1763816082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170712823","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}