In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow. Boston, /5. The Last Dickens is Matthew Pearl’s third stab at a literature-themed thriller. The first was The Dante Club, a tale of murders surrounding the first American translation of the Divine Comedy. From what I remember, The Dante Club wasn’t badly executed at all. Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens: A Novel is one of a number of books about Charles Dickens' last, albeit unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics). But what sets this novel apart from its compatriots is Pearl's ability to build suspense and extrapolate from historical events to create a palpable underbelly of the publishing world/5(5).
The official site for Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Chamber, Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, Company Eight, and The Last bltadwin.ru New York Times Bestselling Author of the international sensation, The Dante Clubwhich bring you to mid 19th century Boston, where a brutal series of murderscan only be stopped by America's first scholars of Dante. Matthew Pearl: The Last Dickens (review) While Dan Simmons took on the last 5 years of Dickens' life in Drood, Matthew Pearl focuses on Dickens' last journey to America as well as what happened right after his death. Both Pearl and Simmons try to solve the mystery of Edwin Drood - and Pearl actually wrote the introduction to the edition. Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin.
In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow. Boston, The Last Dickens is Matthew Pearl’s third stab at a literature-themed thriller. The first was The Dante Club, a tale of murders surrounding the first American translation of the Divine Comedy. From what I remember, The Dante Club wasn’t badly executed at all. The Last Dickens is a novel by Matthew Pearl published by Random House. It is a work of historical and literary fiction. The novel is a Washington Post Critics' Pick. [citation needed] It contains some characters from The Dante Club.
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