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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.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
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"A bloodthirsty delight....Both literary and scary, this one is guaranteed to keep one reading into the wee hours." (Booklist)
"Along with all the fascinating historical information, there's also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. Exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love of the bloodthirsty: it's hard to imagine that readers won't be bitten, too." (Publishers Weekly)
"The Historian is artfully constructed and atmospheric." (Washington Post Book World)
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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Instruments of Darkness
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Robertson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
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Not The Best, But Not Too Bad...
- De MJ en 01-13-13
De: Imogen Robertson
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My Beautiful Enemy
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Charlotte Anne Dore
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Catherine Blade's uncommon beauty and daring have taken her far in the world, but she still doesn't have the freedom to live life as she chooses. Finally given the chance to earn her independence, who should be standing in her way but the only man she's ever loved - the only person to ever betray her. Despite the scars Catherine left him, Captain Leighton Atwood has never been able to forget the mysterious girl who once so thoroughly captivated him.
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my least favorite from this author, and still good
- De Christina en 09-04-14
De: Sherry Thomas
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The Distant Hours
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.
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Right Mood At The Right Time
- De Simone en 11-13-12
De: Kate Morton
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Winter Journey
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Halina Shore is a Polish born forensic dentist living in Australia. When she travels to Poland to take part in the investigation of a war crime, she finds herself at the center of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. As the investigation proceeds, her professional assignment becomes a confronting personal odyssey as the truth about her own past begins to emerge.
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Historical Story Marred by Unnecessary Fluff
- De Debbie en 11-30-15
De: Diane Armstrong
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Haunted Ground
- De: Erin Hart
- Narrado por: Jennifer McMahon
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.
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Mysteries old and mysteries new
- De Linda en 11-25-03
De: Erin Hart
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Wildest Dreams
- De: Jennifer Blake
- Narrado por: Carrie Russo
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, taking with her the secret to the formula of a legendary perfume that is now the most sought-after perfume on the market. Joletta tries to track down the formula through journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. As Joletta follows Violet's itinerary across the continent, the story goes back in time, to 19th-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume.
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Made me cry
- De Amazon Customer en 02-14-23
De: Jennifer Blake
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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Loved It!
- De T Heskett en 09-23-18
De: Juliet Blackwell
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The Seduction of Water
- De: Carol Goodman
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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For Iris, he sudden impulse to write a piece about her mother leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime - and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother's death, a strange, untimely end in a fire 30 years ago. When Iris returns to the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, the place where she grew up, to write her mother's biography and search for her mother's missing manuscript, she unravels a haunting mystery that threatens to envelope her.
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Disapointing
- De Susan Delaney en 02-19-09
De: Carol Goodman
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The Lost Book of the Grail
- A Novel
- De: Charlie Lovett
- Narrado por: Charles Armstrong
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. But when Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester to digitize the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. Appalled by the threat of modern technology, he sets out to thwart Bethany, only to find in her a kindred spirit - and a fellow Grail fanatic.
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A Lot of Fun...But
- De Thursday Next en 04-20-17
De: Charlie Lovett
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A Share in Death
- De: Deborah Crombie
- Narrado por: Michael Deehy
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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series readers, start here
- De connie en 02-09-13
De: Deborah Crombie
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The Medusa Amulet
- De: Robert Masello
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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Benvenuto Cellini, master artisan of Renaissance Italy, once crafted a beautiful amulet prized for its unimaginable power - and untold menace. Now the quest to recover this legendary artifact depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago's world-renowned Newberry Library.
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A great historical fiction book, fun and intriguing
- De Nicole en 04-14-16
De: Robert Masello
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Named of the Dragon
- De: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.
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Not Kearsley's best
- De Sindy en 06-27-16
De: Susanna Kearsley
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The Tenth Chamber
- De: Glenn Cooper
- Narrado por: Henri Lubatti
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling 14th-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains - and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring.
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Leaves Dan Brown's "INFERNO" in the Dust
- De karinzart en 07-06-13
De: Glenn Cooper
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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.
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One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.
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All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's beloved collection of stories, long famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale. The enigmatic Winter has always kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she summons a biographer to tell the truth about her extraordinary life: Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth remains an ever-present pain.
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One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.
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One of his best
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A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.
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When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past. Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her Catholic upbringing, hotel cleaner, Noelle, travels to the Isle of Bute. There, she meets a man who claims to be a vampire, and a relationship blooms between them based solely on confession.
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Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she comes across a young local woman named Alice Gray who is gathering herbs. A midwife, Alice promises Fleetwood she can help her deliver a healthy baby.
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- Tina
- 01-29-06
Excellent narration, but...
I love historical fiction because it tends to make history come alive, but the history in this book is dead. I could never concentrate on the parts about the Ottomans doing this or that - it just didn't hold my attention, and never seemed to move the story forward.
I like the concept of a book written in letters, but it goes to far with letters inside of letters inside of letters, and the only present character appears too rarely.
The narration is fabulous - a male and a female voice with excellent ability to change accents - without this variation, I don't think I could have made it through the book, and I certainly couldn't have read it.
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- Kate
- 08-05-07
Amazing stoyteller
This novel took me places I have never been before - my imagination ran wild in the streets of Istanbul and hiked up hills to monasteries in France. What an incredible romp through Europe with a vampire on you heels!
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- Jody
- 11-21-13
Vampires for adults (Is that possible?)
What made the experience of listening to The Historian the most enjoyable?
It makes you feel like you are reading a historical novel. You find yourself in a Transylvania reverie wondering if vampires might be real. Didn't the historian just prove it? The narrators did an excellent job of gliding from one character to another without any annoying disturbances in the flow of the story. Because the story was written about an earlier time, before cell phones and computers, it was much easier for us to be seduced into picturing it a perfect era for Dracula, even if it was in the 20th century. Some of the other reviewers made me laugh because they felt like it had "unbelievable plot twists" and
coincidences. This is a story about vampires after all. If you want a an enjoyable fictional read, without all the blood, gore and sex of other vampire novels, this is the book for you. And yes, unbelievable things just might happen and for no particular reason other than to entertain us.
What other book might you compare The Historian to and why?
The Historian definitely has the flavor of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley with the old world architecture and the Romanian woods and mountains.
What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Hearing the different dialects, especially when they are done well, really makes a story come to life.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I found the meeting with Helens mother very moving. It was a little bit of light in a book about darkness.
Any additional comments?
If you liked the original Dracula, you will love this book.
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- Brandon
- 02-16-09
For a historian? Fun
A whole lot of this book takes place in libraries and old castles. So, I really could see how some would find it boring.
For me? It was awesome. It's a vampire novel from the prospective of a historian. As a history buff who loves nothing more than the dustiest floor of the library, it was a really different and compelling take on the vampire novel.
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- Melanie
- 08-15-07
Great book!
This was a wonderful book. The characters were well developed and the story kept you captivated. I couldn't wait to go to work so that I could listen some more.
The format did get a little confusing because the story was told in three parts in three different time periods, so you had to pay close attention to what time period they were talking about.
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- Gail Holdeman
- 11-13-06
Very Enjoyable
I had purchased the book thinking I would spend the month reading it until I found it on Audible. I got the unabridged because I wanted to "read" the whole book. I enjoyed it tremendiously. It reminded me alot of the Devinci Code, and the mystery in it. The author's writing is very good, and the two readers made it easy to keep up with the changes in protagonist of the story.
I normally don't read books about Dracula or this type of book. But this search for Dracula isn't the ordinary story of vampires. The author gives alot of historical information and a very interesting story line. I was always curious about what was going to happen, and was surprised at the ending. I enjoyed it alot, and recommend you read it even if you aren't interested in Dracula.
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- donald tower
- 02-25-16
good story but very long!
really enjoyed the story and the history of the countries involved but it was very long and struggled to make it to the end
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- Janice Budd
- 02-07-11
Historical Fiction on the Trail of Dracula
It seems that my review will echo that of many others. The ending was a bit of a let down. The other thing that brought my rating down were some inconsistencies.
One I will mention is that at the beginning of the novel, the young heroine had travelled to a city. She gave the city a ficticious name to protect it from thrill seeking tourists. It was an obvious reference to the effect that The Divinci Code had on people who thronged to see the landmarks in the book. I thought both - a ficticious name for the city and the nod to The Divinci Code - totally irrelevant. It seemed to stick out as a sore thumb when other cities and landmarks were not similarily treated.
What I loved about the book was the attention to detail in the historical research. It had me searching maps and articles online for more information. The other thing I loved was the narration of Paul Michaels. I see that Audibles has another version narrated by Joanne Whalley, Dennis Bourtsikaris, and others. I would highly recommend that you get the version with Paul Michaels. He is masterful at accents. Each character that he speaks for has their own unique sound.
It was a pleasure to read a book about Dracula that didn't follow the Romeo & Juliet theme of the Twilight series and the plethora of its ilk that is the fad of teenage girls everywhere. It returns Dracula and vampires back to the evil, cruel creatures of Bram Stoker's day.
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- Ursula
- 07-31-15
Hang in there!! It's worth it!!
Would you listen to The Historian again? Why?
Yes, the story is so detailed, especially in historical references that one would have to in order to truly recall everything.
What did you like best about this story?
There is a great deal of research behind this story, making it all the more real for the listener. I found myself googling places in western Europe that I would have never known about otherwise. Similar to the art I googled while reading Dan Brown, the story makes you want to know more about the environment. I feel smarter after reading this book!!
What does Justine Eyre and Paul Michael bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Since this story is so detailed, the juxtaposition of male and female voices truly is helpful in keeping with the complex story line, especially when moving from the present to the past within the chapters.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The Vlad you've never known
Any additional comments?
Starts out a little dry, but well worth the time you put in. Stay with it!!
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- Maggie Bootman
- 01-13-15
The Historian
Would you listen to The Historian again? Why?
No. The plot, story, and narration were good but it was a little too long. The book could have been summed up in a shorter period of time.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
I was really disappointed in the ending. It left some loose ends and unanswered questions. It was just abrupt.
Which scene was your favorite?
I enjoyed the scenes in Turkey and Bulgaria.
Who was the most memorable character of The Historian and why?
I enjoyed the girl narrator. Though we do not know much about her, she has a thirst for the truth about the past.
Any additional comments?
It seemed a little one-sided historical speaking. I wish both sides were discussed.
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