The Prague cemetery / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

By: Eco, UmbertoContributor(s): Dixon, RichardMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2011Description: 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846554926 (pbk.); 9781846554919Uniform titles: Cimitero di Praga. English Subject(s): 1789-1900 | Spy stories, Italian | Historical fiction, Italian | Suspense fiction, Italian | Suspense fiction | Historical fiction | Spy stories | Antisemitism | Conspiracies | Political crimes and offenses | Antisemitism -- Fiction | Political crimes and offenses -- Fiction | Conspiracies -- Fiction | Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Europe -- History -- Fiction | Europe | Europe -- History -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Spy storiesGenre/Form: Spy fiction | Suspense fiction | Historical fiction | Suspense fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | History. | Suspense fiction | Thrillers (Fiction). | Spy stories. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 853/.914 LOC classification: PQ4865.C6 | C4613 2011bOnline resources: Click here to search for similar authors using Fiction Connection
Contents:
A passerby on that gray morning -- Who am I? -- Chez Magny -- In my grandfather's day -- Simonino the carbonaro -- Serving the secret service -- With the thousand -- The ercole -- Paris -- Dalla Piccola perplexed -- Joly -- A night in Prague -- Dalla Piccola says he is not Dalla Piccola -- Biarritz -- Dalla Piccola redivivus -- Boullan -- The days of the commune -- The protocols -- Osman Bey -- Russians? -- Taxil -- The devil in the nineteenth century -- Twelve years well spent -- A night Mass -- Sorting matters out -- The final solution -- Diary cut short.
Summary: 19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. 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. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events.
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"First published with the title Il cimitero di Praga in 2010 by Bompiani, Milan"--T.p. verso.

A passerby on that gray morning -- Who am I? -- Chez Magny -- In my grandfather's day -- Simonino the carbonaro -- Serving the secret service -- With the thousand -- The ercole -- Paris -- Dalla Piccola perplexed -- Joly -- A night in Prague -- Dalla Piccola says he is not Dalla Piccola -- Biarritz -- Dalla Piccola redivivus -- Boullan -- The days of the commune -- The protocols -- Osman Bey -- Russians? -- Taxil -- The devil in the nineteenth century -- Twelve years well spent -- A night Mass -- Sorting matters out -- The final solution -- Diary cut short.

19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. 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. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events.

Translated from the Italian.

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