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The Prague cemetery

19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every natio...

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Main Author: Eco, Umberto.
Corporate Authors: Recorded Books, LLC.
Other Authors: Dixon, Richard., Guidall, George. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Italian
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011, c2010.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Antisemitism > Fiction.
Conspiracies > Fiction.
Political crimes and offenses > Fiction.
Europe > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Europe.
Suspense fiction > Europe.
Audiobooks.
Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From teh unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But, what if, behind all these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all?
Item Description: Compact disc.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description: 12 sound discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 9781461839675
146183967X
9781464009105
1464009104
Author Notes: Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, Italy on January 5, 1932. He received a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Turin in 1954. His first book, Il Problema Estetico in San Tommaso, was an extension of his doctoral thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas and was published in 1956. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was published in 1980 and won the Premio Strega and the Premio Anghiar awards in 1981. In 1986, it was adapted into a movie starring Sean Connery. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Prague Cemetery, and Numero Zero. He also wrote children's books and more than 20 nonfiction books including Serendipities: Language and Lunacy. He taught philosophy and then semiotics at the University of Bologna. He also wrote weekly columns on popular culture and politics for L'Espresso. He died from cancer on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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