ENGLISH

The Prague Cemetery

By Umberto Eco

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Year
2011
ISBN
0547577532, 9780547577531
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3074549 bytes)
Edition
None
Pages
464\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery 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 just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all?

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