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Book Description
After a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret, she embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could-to find history's most legendary fiend, Dracula. When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addresContinue
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readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010
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Neckrophilia
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova Little Brown £14.99, pp656 This book reads like a cross between Dracula and The Da Vinci Code. Essentially, it is a spirited update of Bram Stoker's classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
43 Reviews
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6 people find this helpful
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Book is seriously damaged by friend R's gf. Trash it.
Personally I like this MUCH MORE than the hype of "Da Vinci's Code". Vampire and the mysterious Eastern Europe always gives you a delicious cocktail. It let you tipsy but not over the head. Though it's 700 pages thick, you just need to spe ... (continue)
張小張・Cons said on Jan 31, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Alex Can said on May 1, 2009 | Add your feedback
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I finally finished it last night. I don't want to say too much before the meeting, but wanted to make a brief record here. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read but definitly the worst thing I've read in ages. It was such a terrible narrative style, there was no different voices for any of the cha ... (continue)
Robot-mel said on Sep 1, 2007 | Add your feedback
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The longest single book I ever read. Totaling 816 pages.
This book was about the legend of Dracula (Vlad Tepes - the Impaler or the vampire). It also unfolded the history of a family.
Bartolomeo Rossi + Helen's mother ---> Helen + Paul ---> Narrator
There were three narrative line ... (continue)
Candy said on Jan 5, 2012 | Add your feedback
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I really liked this books. The author writes in a pleasant, easy style and the story is filled with geographical and historical details. I would definitely recommend it to people passionate about history and sort of detective stories. It's slow at times, but otherwise a very good read.
Bleedindarklove said on Jul 1, 2011 | Add your feedback
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Maybe I read a few too many favorable reviews before actually reading the book, so *maybe* I had too high an expectation to begin with, but it was drawn way too long, did not feel that the story needed 642 pages to be told.
and ... huh? (*BIG spoiler alert!*) Vlad the Impaler, Dracula, ferocious ... (continue)
Linda said on Mar 4, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 720 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0751537284
- ISBN-13: 9780751537284
- Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780751537284 | Paperback | $14.47 | -- | The Book Depository |
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'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova
In this gripping tale the narrator, a 16-year-old girl, discovers an intriguing batch of letters in her father's library. Unable to resist reading them she unwittingly opens a dark chapter in her family's past, which takes her on an ominous and dange ... (read full critics)