Matthew Pearl

Looking backward

by Keith Taylor

posted 7/1/2007

A few years ago, Matthew Pearl's novel The Dante Club carved out a unique place for itself on the various best-seller lists. In it Pearl combined original historical research into the work and lives of leading nineteenth-century American writers — Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James Russell Lowell — with a captivating murder mystery

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