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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. Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad's ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable.

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Title of ebook: The Historian
ISBN: 9780759513822
Publisher: Little Brown
Internet download file size: 1807 kb
Released online for download: 06-14-2005
Author of eBook: Kostova, Elizabeth

The Historian

Chapter One

In 1972 I was sixteen-young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions. He preferred to know that I was sitting attentively in class at the International School of Amsterdam; in those days his foundation was based in Amsterdam, and it had been my home for so long that I had nearly forgotten our early life in the United States. It seems peculiar to me now that I should have been so obedient well into my teens, while the rest of my generation was experimenting with drugs and protesting the imperialist war in Vietnam, but I had been raised in a world so sheltered that it makes my adult life in academia look positively adventurous. To begin with, I was motherless, and the care that my father took of me had been deepened by a double sense of responsibility, so that he protected me more completely than ... read full excerpt from The Historian ebook

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I quite liked it, although it had many flaws: it was a tad too long; I found the idea that Dracula might leave a--relatively--ancient book with his insignia stamped on the first page on the desks of scholars in order to tempt them to research his legend slightly ridiculous; the ending felt a bit awkward and contrived; the daughter and her traveling companion are so sketchy they don't even qualify as two-dimensional. But her mother and father's journey, especially through the former Ottoman Empire were fascinating to read about, and I'm a sucker for vampire stories that actually manage to pay homage to the Dracula legend and not portray vampires as "delightfully" wicked, romantic, wise, knows-what-he-wants-and-he-wants-YOU-and-your-soul-saving-love creatures. Ok, so the brides of Dracula were gorgeous, sex-starved maniacs. But they wanted to drain your carcass and turn you into a vampire because it might be fun to watch you and your loved ones scream in horror, not because they wanted to spend the rest of eternity battling the forces of evil and having fantastic sex.
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