From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Pearl (The Poe Shadow) delivers a period thriller that has the misfortune to fall short of the high standard set by Dan Simmons's Drood (Reviews, Nov. 24), which als
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.
From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murderThe year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Bosto
From Matthew Pearl, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murderThe year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired kil
On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island's greatest masterpiece. On the other side of the world th
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Dante Club, the story of an epic literary heist by a forgotten class of consummate criminals book'a-neer' (book'k?-ner'), n. a literary pirat
On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Isl
The bestselling author of The Dante Club takes us deep into a shadowy era in publishing ruled by a forgotten class of criminals A golden age of publishing on the verge of collapse. For a hundred year
The bestselling author of The Dante Club takes us deep into a shadowy era in publishing ruled by a forgotten class of criminals A golden age of publishing on the verge of collapse. For a hundred year
“A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . Th
The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril. The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers t
The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril. The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers t
“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.” Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own fam
The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s Inferno. Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, O
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character,
Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined LetterBetween 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing storie
It’s often said that a good book takes us somewhere we’ve never been before, and here’s the proof: a book-lover’s Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe. Novel
For the new breed of vacationer who craves meaningful trips and unusual locales, the combination of reading and travel can be a heady mix?especially if you happen to be checking into Hemingway’s favor
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante’s literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet V
Discover proven strategies and solutions for successful participation in the global marketWith less than fifty percent of middle market US companies succeeding at going global, corporate executives ne
Sportsmen continue to marvel that Bobby Jones’ legacy remains unparalleled in golf history. One of the many secrets why that is emanates from the fact that Jones was more than the consummate cha
