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Matthew Pearl

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Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl - has books at our site 

The Dante Club
The Last Dickens
The Poe Shadow
The Last Bookaneer
The Dante Chamber

"I love research. People have different tolerances for tedious research. I happen to have a very high one . . . If I’m in the very early stages of a book, it’s a lot of research and taking notes. I research until the point where I can start writing, and then I keep researching . . . I’m on my sixth book. They’re all different stories, but they’re all set in the 19th century. There are things that overlap, so it’s less of an uphill climb now. I have a head start."

About Matthew Pearl

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

Roald Dahl, Matilda

Roald Dahl, Matilda

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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