New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book with browned edges and light spot . fore edge front board; jacket with tiny dig to front panel at spine, and . tiny tear top edge back panel.. 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. 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. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 444 pages .

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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? 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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