The Historian'storian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova.
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16 Facts About The Historian
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The Historian's worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for.
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The Historian'storian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller.
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The Historian's is Helen Rossi, the daughter of Bartholomew Rossi, and she has become an expert on Dracula.
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The Historian has access to Mehmed's archive, and together they unearth several important documents.
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The Historian's later confesses that she feared the taint of the vampiric bite that she acquired earlier would infect her child.
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The Historian's listened to recordings of Balkan folk music as a child and became interested in the tradition.
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The Historian's found a vampire-killing kit at the Mercer Museum, which included a pistol, silver bullets, a crucifix, a wooden stake, and powdered garlic.
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The Historian'storian has been described as a combination of genres, including the Gothic novel, the adventure novel, the detective novel, the travelogue, the postmodern historical novel, the epistolary epic, and the historical thriller.
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The Historian's was inspired by Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins; his novel The Moonstone, with its plot twists and bevy of narrators, was "a major model".
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The Historian lived in a comfortable house at the edge of the campus, where he collected not only books on his topic but the official china of the Third Reich.
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The Historian'story has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so.
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The Historian's met with book retailers who, impressed with her presentation, bought large numbers of the book.
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The Historian'storian was the first debut novel to land at number one on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale, and as of 2005 was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in U S history.
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The Historian's saw "little of the terror of these periods" in the novel and little of the tension between the Islamic East and the Christian West.
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