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Book Description
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history...... Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of -- Continue
Critics
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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
41 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Alex Can said on May 1, 2009 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | 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
- Hardcover 656 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0316730319
- ISBN-13: 9780316730310
- Publisher: Little, Brown
- Pub date: Jun 30, 2005
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780316730310 | Hardcover | $24.58 | -- | 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)