The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown, and Company, which bought it for a remarkable US$2 million.

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  • The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown, and Company, which bought it for a remarkable US$2 million. The Historian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. Although based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Historian is not a horror novel, but rather an eerie tale. The novel is concerned with history's role in society and how history is represented in books, as well as the nature of good and evil. As Kostova explains, "Dracula is a metaphor for the evil that is so hard to undo in history. " The evils brought about by religious conflict are a particular theme and the novel explores the relationship between the Christian West and the Islamic East. Little, Brown, and Company heavily promoted the book and it became the first debut novel to land at number one on the The New York Times bestseller list and as of 2005 was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in US history. In general, the reviews of the novel were mixed. Several reviewers noted that she described the setting of her novel well. However, some reviewers criticized the book's structure and its lack of tonal variety. Kostova received the 2006 Book Sense award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year. Sony has bought the rights and is planning a film adaptation.
  • L'Historienne et Drakula est un roman américain écrit par Elizabeth Kostova, paru en 2005 en anglais et en 2006 en français. Il raconte la quête d'une historienne sur les traces de son père, à différentes époques et jusqu'en Bulgarie et en France. Quête, qui va la mener sur les traces de Drakula. Ce roman est actuellement traduit dans plus de 28 langues.
  • Historyk (The Historian) - książka autorstwa Elizabeth Kostovy, wydana w 2005 roku. Stała się ona światowym bestsellerem. Została przetłumaczona na 35 języków.
  • O Historiador é um romance publicado em 2005 por Elizabeth Kostova sobre uma busca que passa através dos últimos cinco séculos, pelo Drácula histórico. A trama se passa na Europa do período da Guerra Fria, onde uma menina, filha de um diplomata, descobre uma série de cartas misteriosas dentro de um livro na biblioteca de seu pai. Após pesquisas e histórias contadas por seu pai, a menina descobre o legado que foi deixado à ela. Nas histórias do pai, ele conta que em sua época de pós-graduação em História, ele conheceu um professor, Bartholomew Rossi, que antes de seu desaparecimento misterioso, deixou-lhe o livro com as cartas, nas quais ele afirma ter descoberto que Conde Drácula ainda estava vivo. O livro percorre a natureza da história e na sua relevância para o mundo atual. O romance (o primeiro de Kostova) apareceu na lista dos mais vendidos do New York Times durante o verão e o inverno de 2005. O Historiador foi nomeado o Livro do Ano pelo Book Sense, na categoria Ficção Adulta. Seus direitos cinematográficos foram comprados pela Sony.
  • 《歷史學家》（The Historian）是美國作家伊麗莎白·柯斯托娃（Elizabeth Kostova）撰寫的首本小說，於2005年出版，旋即高踞紐約時報的2005年夏季及秋季的暢銷書榜，在2006年中全球賣出約500萬本。
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  • The Historian (journal)
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  • "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of latter-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the stand-points and within the range of knowledge of those who made them."
  • "The Historian amounts to something profound, messy, and wondrously mathematical at times....We encounter obsession, possession, and the struggle against the brevity of life. It is an exploration of the eternal desire for intimacy. The innocent are as vulnerable as the woefully enlightened. They just do not know it yet."
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  • — Epigraph to Part One from Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' (1897)
  • — Saffron Burrows
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  • the 2005 novel by Elizabeth Kostova
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  • The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown, and Company, which bought it for a remarkable US$2 million.
  • L'Historienne et Drakula est un roman américain écrit par Elizabeth Kostova, paru en 2005 en anglais et en 2006 en français. Il raconte la quête d'une historienne sur les traces de son père, à différentes époques et jusqu'en Bulgarie et en France. Quête, qui va la mener sur les traces de Drakula. Ce roman est actuellement traduit dans plus de 28 langues.
  • Historyk (The Historian) - książka autorstwa Elizabeth Kostovy, wydana w 2005 roku. Stała się ona światowym bestsellerem. Została przetłumaczona na 35 języków.
  • O Historiador é um romance publicado em 2005 por Elizabeth Kostova sobre uma busca que passa através dos últimos cinco séculos, pelo Drácula histórico. A trama se passa na Europa do período da Guerra Fria, onde uma menina, filha de um diplomata, descobre uma série de cartas misteriosas dentro de um livro na biblioteca de seu pai. Após pesquisas e histórias contadas por seu pai, a menina descobre o legado que foi deixado à ela.
  • 《歷史學家》（The Historian）是美國作家伊麗莎白·柯斯托娃（Elizabeth Kostova）撰寫的首本小說，於2005年出版，旋即高踞紐約時報的2005年夏季及秋季的暢銷書榜，在2006年中全球賣出約500萬本。
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