The Prague cemetery Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011Edition: 1st American edDescription: viii, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780547577531 (hardback); 0547577532 (hardback)Uniform titles: Cimitero di Praga. English Subject(s): Antisemitism -- Fiction | Conspiracies -- Fiction | Political crimes and offenses -- Fiction | Europe -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Spy stories. | Suspense fiction.LOC classification: PQ4865.C6 | C4613 2011Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. One of their most powerful tools is forgery. 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. -- Provided by publisher.
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19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. One of their most powerful tools is forgery. 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. -- Provided by publisher.
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