'To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.' Late one night, exploring her fathers. And, Rossi announced, ”Dracula - Vlad Tepes - is still alive.” After handing Paul a packet of notes, including some inscrutable maps, Rossi promptly vanished, leaving bloodstains on his blotter?and on the ceiling. (And I know you will.) Any time I see a movie that has more than three extreme close-ups of a. Historian by Elizabeth Kostova available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews.
The real-life prince became known as Vlad the Impaler for the torture techniques he learned from the Ottomans, and later achieved immortality after Bram Stoker published his 1897 classic, Dracula. The receipt of the book turned out to be a kind of curse vaguely linked to the 15th-century Romanian sadist Vlad Tepes. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. When he showed the book to his academic adviser, Bartholomew Rossi, he learned that Rossi had received a similar book, in a similar fashion, when he was a young man. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 4.1 (766) Paperback 19.99 21.99 Save 9 Paperback 19.99 eBook 4.99 Audiobook 0. He tried to get rid of it, but when he returned to his carrel, there it was again. The novel is inspired by the stories Kostova’s father would tell her about Dracula as a child. Divided into three parts, the story fuses the history and folklore of Vlad the Impaler and his fictional counterpart, Count Dracula. One night many years ago when he was a young graduate student, the volume unaccountably appeared on his library carrel. The Historian is the 2005 genre-bending debut novel written by American author Elizabeth Kostova. Urn:oclc:829335338 Republisher_date 20140619072148 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140618071327 Scanner 1972, while browsing in her father’s well-appointed library, the unnamed narrator, an American teenager living in Amsterdam, comes across a curious old book and a packet of yellowing letters addressed to ”My dear and unfortunate successor.” When she asks her father, a heretofore dull and overprotective diplomat named Paul, about her discovery, he begins an uncharacteristically thrilling tale. OL5856511W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.55 Pages 662 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0751537292 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:13:08 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1119918 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition.
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