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The Dante Club
The Dante Club
Author: Matthew Pearl
Words Can Bleed. 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 The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New Wo...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743517928
ISBN-10: 074351792X
Publication Date: 2/1/2003
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Publisher: Audioworks
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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If you want to evaluate this book, then I recommend the print version, not this audio recording. I just didn't like the reader. For some reason he felt compelled to give every character an exaggerated accent, and made them all sound insufferably pompous as well. Also, he pronounces "forehead" so that it rhymes exactly with "horrid." I hope he doesn't go around talking that way in real life.

The story itself is somewhat interesting, but again, my judgment of it was clouded by my irritation at the narrator, so I can't be objective on this point.

In fairness, though, his voice is extremely well-suited to reading Dante's actual poetry, and you get to hear the opening canto of The Inferno at the end, which is nice.

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