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The Prague Cemetery
by Eco, Umberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Fine/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547577532
- ISBN 13
- 9780547577531
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2011. 1st. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - Fine/Good. 5.75"X8.5"X1.75". 444 pages. Black boards. Matching black spine with gilt letters. Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Jocket phot by Ocean/Corbis. Author photo by Augusto Casaoli/A3/CONTRASTO/Redux. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. One small tear at bottom of spine. DJ has 3 small tears along top edge & small hole that have been repaired with archival tape. One big 3" hole in back of DJ. DJ#1348437. Not x-library, not price clipped, and no markings. Brief Description:
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events. "--Ingram
Goodreads ****.
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events. "--Ingram
Goodreads ****.
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
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12419
- Title
- The Prague Cemetery
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0547577532
- ISBN 13
- 9780547577531
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2011
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