Historian, Kostova Elizabeth

Автор: Kostova
Название: Historian
ISBN: 0316057886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316057882
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 835.00 р.
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Kostova,E
Название: Historian
ISBN: 0751537292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751537291
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: * The International Sensation * In the tradition of THE SECRET HISTORY and THE ALIENIST - a captivating and suspenseful novel that delves into the true history of Count Dracula ...

Автор: Kostova Elizabeth
Название: The Shadow Land
ISBN: 0345527879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345527875
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Margaret Atwood sums up The Handmaid`s Tale by saying, "it`s a study of power, and how it operates and how it deforms or shapes the people who are living within that kind of regime." From the 1986 first US edition cover. Product Details: Cotton/poly fitted tee, distressed, softened print, colour: vintage black, Size: Medium, Length: 28 1/2 inches, Chest: 39 1/2 inches. Each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need.

Автор: Kostova
Название: Historian, The
ISBN: 0316067946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316067942
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 1044.00 р.
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Автор: Kostova, Elizabeth
Название: Cavanaugh Green
ISBN: 1524799661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524799663
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Kostova, Elizabeth
Название: Cavanaugh Green
ISBN: 1524799645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524799649
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Katsu, Alma
Название: The Hunger
ISBN: 0593078322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593078327
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal and far more deadly.