Download Books The Historian Online

List Appertaining To Books The Historian

Title	:	The Historian
Author	:	Elizabeth Kostova
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 704 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2005 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Magic

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Kindle Edition | Pages: 704 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 234336 Users | 15767 Reviews

Representaion During Books The Historian

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, a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.

The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself--to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.

Particularize Books In Favor Of The Historian

Original Title:	The Historian ASIN B000FCK6EI
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bartholomew Rossi, Helen Rossi, Dracula
Setting:	Europe,1974 Amsterdam,1974(Netherlands)
Literary Awards:	International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2005), Hopwood Award for Novel in-progress (2003), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Best Adult Fiction (2006), The Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year (2005), Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction (2006)

Rating Appertaining To Books The Historian

Ratings: 3.78 From 234336 Users | 15767 Reviews

Article Appertaining To Books The Historian

Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. I hope I will have time to write more about this book later, but one thing I need to mention is: what you hear about is true. The denouement is ridiculous and I honestly don't understand why it had to be this why, since it's more than apparent that Kostova's imagination is, to say the least, extraordinarily vivid. Dracula's motive is implausible and unconvincing, but I feel that it holds a symbolic meaning in Kostova's conception of the

Well written, interesting perspective on Vlad the Impaler. Good research into the history of that part of the world.

What a wonderfully well researched book for historical fictions fans. Elizabeth Kostova sure knows storytelling and did a terrific job interweaving the search for Dracula (The Impaler) and Eastern European history. The author takes you through ancient castles, churches, and libraries looking through documents for clues to the whereabouts of the historical Dracula.The book is entrancing, but a bit slow at times when progressing through over 22 CD's. My biggest complaint is I didn't care for the

This book is impossible to resist. It has fairly leapt to the top shelf, where it's nestled down deep with my all time favourites. I confess to being initially reluctant to delve into this story, I mean who really needs another campy, vampire tale? Lucky for me I put these feelings aside long enough to read the first chapter after which there was no looking back. Step into the pages and begin an eerie, haunted, hypnotic adventure thoroughly saturated in ancient history and wondrous, exotic, old

This novel is better than I had any anticipation of it being. Id seen it among a friends luggage then later saw it at the library. Having just come off three weeks of nineteenth century novelists, I thought, Oh, something light would be a nice change. After all, I thought. Vampires. The book is about vampires. And not just any vampire, but the mack daddy himself, Dracula, the real Vlad the Impaler, who turns out to be the undead.Light reading. Sure. Six hundred and fifty pages of vampires that

This is my favorite book of ALL time from any genre! At its core this is a book about Drakulya, about his history and his impact on those that knew him and those that have hunted the truth about him for centuries.The novel opens with an unnamed female voice informing the reader in the year 2008 that she's about to tell the story of what happened to her thirty years before. The story is mostly about her father Paul, a historian turned diplomat, and his search for Dracula, Vlad the Impaler. This

You know youve been in school too long when you write a vampire novel in which Draculas ultimate threat is to force his victims to catalog his extensive library of antique books. On the other hand, after finishing The Historian, and its detailed Vlad the Impaler research, Im willing to consider that threat as akin to impalement. If Kostovas references to Henry James did not reveal her as an admirer of his, then its sprawling prose, vague plot, and sexually confused characters would have. While