THE PRAGUE CEMETERY
by Eco, Umberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with browned edges and light spot fore edge front board; jacket with tiny dig to front
- ISBN 10
- 0547577532
- ISBN 13
- 9780547577531
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created the world’s most infamous document? Umberto Eco takes his readers on a remarkable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Here is Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.
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- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8443
- Title
- THE PRAGUE CEMETERY
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with browned edges and light spot fore edge front board; jacket with tiny dig to front
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547577532
- ISBN 13
- 9780547577531
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries & Thrillers; Mystery & Suspense / E;
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- Fine
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