The Dante Club Audiobook (Free)

In 1865 Boston, the associates of the Dante Golf club — poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Areas — are completing America’s first translation from the Divine Comedy and getting ready to unveil Dante’s remarkable visions to the brand new World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard University are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that this infiltration of international superstitions onto American bookshelves about The Dante Golf club will confirm as corrupting as the immigrants surviving in Boston Harbor.

As they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the programs of the Dante Golf club are placed in additional jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the town. Only the scholars recognize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante’s Inferno and its accounts of Hell’s torturous punishments. With the lives from the Boston elite and Dante’s literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must discover the killer before the authorities discover their secret.

The Dante Club is an impressive blend of truth and fiction, a brilliantly noticed paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continuing grip on our imaginations.