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1800s: The Prague Cemetery explores the 19th-century novels that were plagiarised in the Protocols – and Alexandre Dumas is your guide
The Prague Cemetery
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The Prague Cemetery explores the 19th-century novels that were plagiarised in the Protocols – andAlexandre Dumas is your guide
Conspiracies rule history. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Dreyfus Affair Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius lived in the underbelly of some of the world’s most earth shattering events.?
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19th century France and Italy as well as a famous cemetery in Prague come to glorious life. All except one character in this novel are real but there are a whole range of characters from secret agents, corrupt police and sinful clerics, to name but only a few.
This is a world of 19th politics and literature but the author is a semiologist so there is hidden meaning throughout time and place. There are some things present which aren’t really there. The era of conspiracy is alive and well. Eco is the master of conspiracy,a history of the world with all of its shadows, and has insights into the Freemasons, Carbonari, Garibaldi, Jesuits, and Jews. History comes alive off the page and conspiracy and theories of kinds unravel before your eyes.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Prague Cemetery
Author/Guide Umberto Eco Destination: Paris, Prague, Turin/Torino Departure Time: 1800s
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