The Prague cemetery / Umberto Eco; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
By: Eco, Umberto
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Contributor(s): Dixon, Richard [translator].
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Mariner BooksDate of publication: 2012Edition: 1st American edition.Description: x, 445 pages: with some illustrations, 21 cm.ISBN: 9780547844206.Other title: Il Cimitero di Praga (Italian).Subject(s): Conspiracies -- Fiction | Antisemitism -- Fiction | Political crimes and offences -- FictionDDC classification: F Ec71 2012 PRA Summary: 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?
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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?
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