holmes, oliver wendell

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno.".

"Twayne's twentieth-century American biography series ; 11." Examines the life and careers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. as soldier, scholar, and judge.

Presents a brief, illustrated biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., providing information on his youth in Boston, his service in the Civil War, his education and law career, his appointment to the Supreme Court, and his influence on American legal thought. Includes time line.

In 1865 Boston, an elite group of American Dante scholars, including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is called upon to solve a series of murders inspired by scenes in Dante's "Inferno.".

A biography of the well-known philosopher and judge, with emphasis on his influential thirty-year tenure as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.