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The Historian

a novel

by Elizabeth Kostova

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Croatian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
  • Content type: Fiction

A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata and “supernatural” in the subject metadata.

    • Occultism· via Open Library
    • occult· in subject
    • supernatural· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from harvard and openlibrary matched “vampires” and “Vampires”. Retained metadata contains “Vampires” in the subject metadata.

    • vampires· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • Vampires· via Open Library
    • Vampires· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 32 editions; 1 cataloged here.

a novel

1st ed.

x, 642 pages : maps ; 25 cm

2008Little, BrownEnglish
  • 9780316011778
  • 9780316058865
  • 9780316067942
  • 9780316070638
  • +12 more
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Subjects

30 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

Harvard
  • 990096914070203941

Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 32 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL5856511W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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