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A [[FramingDevice story within a story]], ''The Historian'' chronicles the adventure of a young [[NoNameGiven nameless]] 16-year-old girl who finds an old vellum-bound book in her father's library. Upon hearing her father's explanation of the book, she learns about his travels to Istanbul and meeting Helen, his adviser's beautiful daughter. The narrator becomes increasingly interested in the story of {{Dracula}}.
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A [[FramingDevice story within a story]], ''The Historian'' chronicles the adventure of a young [[NoNameGiven nameless]] 16-year-old girl who finds [[NoNameGiven (whose name we never learn)]] beginning with her discovery of an old vellum-bound book in her father's library.library, completely blank save for the centre two pages, emblazoned with the woodcut of a dragon. Upon hearing her father's explanation of the book, she learns about his travels to Istanbul and meeting Helen, his adviser's beautiful daughter. The narrator becomes increasingly interested in the story of {{Dracula}}.
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Some vampires are [[ILoveYouVampireSon parents]]. Some are [[LesbianVampire homosexual]]. Others are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly]]. Others are portrayed as those you see on television played by Creator/BelaLugosi. (And then some are all of the above.) And then there are [[Literature/{{Twilight}} those vampires that manage to cause such a ''stir'' in some circles...]]
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Some vampires are [[ILoveYouVampireSon parents]]. Some are [[LesbianVampire homosexual]]. Others are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly]]. Others are portrayed as those you see on television played by Creator/BelaLugosi. (And then some are all of the above.) And then there are [[Literature/{{Twilight}} [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga those vampires that manage to cause such a ''stir'' in some circles...]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Boy howdy.
* PurpleProse: It drifts into this occasionally.
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* PlotTriggeringBook: The plot starts when the daughter of a historian, discovers a peculiar little book purporting to tell the true story of Vlad Tepes. Soon the novel itself becomes a frame for stories-within-stories, as the heroine unravels her father's past in Transylvania and his connection with her supposedly-dead mother.
%%* PurpleProse: It drifts into this occasionally.
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Paul disappeared for just a few days before the narrator found him. That’s not this trope.
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* DisappearedDad: Paul. Rossi, to Helen.
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* MixedAncestry: Helen is part Romanian [[spoiler: and descended from Dracula]] and part English.
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* BadassBookworm: Many, many characters.
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* BadassBookworm: Many, many characters. Also, [[spoiler: Dracula himself.]]
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: Rossi was made to forget that he ever met Helen's mother. At the end he remembers and Helen is able to forgive him.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Helen mentions that there are a lot of folk songs about young women throwing themselves off cliffs or otherwise committing suicide to avoid being taken into Ottoman harems, and [[spoiler: Helen herself jumps off a cliff to avoid Dracula, although she survives.]]
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* LastNameBasis: Stephen Barley.Barley's actual first name is Stephen, but nobody calls him that.
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* MixedAncestry: Helen.Helen is part Romanian [[spoiler: and descended from Dracula]] and part English.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Professor Bora and Selim are forced to stake their librarian friend. [[spoiler: Helen and Paul arrive too late to prevent Rossi being turned and have to stake him, and it's heavily implied that Paul stakes Helen after she dies of her terminal illness, just in case.]]
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* VampireBitesSuck: [[spoiler:Three bites will turn you into one.]]
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* VampireBitesSuck: [[spoiler:Three The traditional three bites will turn you into one.one. [[spoiler: This is the fate of Professor Bora's librarian friend, and nearly the fate of Helen.]]
* VampireRefugee: This is why [[spoiler: Helen left her family; she gets bitten twice and feels tainted. When Dracula nearly gets her the fatal third time, she decides she has to kill him before her family will be safe around her.]]
* VampireRefugee: This is why [[spoiler: Helen left her family; she gets bitten twice and feels tainted. When Dracula nearly gets her the fatal third time, she decides she has to kill him before her family will be safe around her.]]
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* SecretPolice: A given when the protagonist travel through the Eastern Bloc.[[spoiler: Have some unexplained interest in capturing Dracula.]]
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* SecretPolice: A given when the protagonist travel through the Eastern Bloc.[[spoiler: Have some unexplained interest in capturing Dracula.Dracula, though Paul and Helen theorize they hope he could somehow resurrect the preserved bodies of Communist leaders for them.]]
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* DoomAsTestPrize: Dracula leaves arcane clues to his existence and whereabouts and then vampirises and enslaves anybody talented enough to follow them.
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* DoomAsTestPrize: [[spoiler: Dracula leaves arcane clues to his existence and whereabouts and then vampirises vampirizes and enslaves anybody talented enough to follow them.]]
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* TrendCovers: For ''TheDaVinciCode''.
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* TrendCovers: For ''TheDaVinciCode''.''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''.
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* YourPrizeIsDeath: [[spoiler:The clues to Dracula's undead existence and location are all deliberately created, to identify talented historians and lure them to become Dracula's followers or slaves.]]
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* YourPrizeIsDeath: [[spoiler:The clues to Dracula's undead existence and location are all deliberately created, to identify talented historians and lure them to become Dracula's followers or slaves.]]
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''The Historian'' is Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel, published in 2005 when the world was in the middle of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-mania. And thus some consider it to be the vampire book we all passed up.
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But what does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with anything? The answer to this, and the questions put up by her father's letters are found by the narrator as she travels from dusty libraries in Amsterdam to major cities all over Europe.
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But what does the legend of Vlad the Impaler UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler have to do with anything? The answer to this, and the questions put up by her father's letters are found by the narrator as she travels from dusty libraries in Amsterdam to major cities all over Europe.
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Some vampires are [[ILoveYouVampireSon parents]]. Some are [[LesbianVampire homosexual]]. Others are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly]]. Others are portrayed as those you see on television played by Creator/BelaLugosi. (And then some are all of the above.) And then there are [[Literature/{{Twilight}} those vampires that manage to cause such a ''stir'' in some circles...]]
And then there are [[{{Dracula}} the real thing.]]
A [[FramingDevice story within a story]], ''The Historian'' chronicles the adventure of a young [[NoNameGiven nameless]] 16-year-old girl who finds an old vellum-bound book in her father's library. Upon hearing her father's explanation of the book, she learns about his travels to Istanbul and meeting Helen, his adviser's beautiful daughter. The narrator becomes increasingly interested in the story of {{Dracula}}.
But it doesn't end there.
The narrator's calm, peaceful life in Amsterdam is disrupted when her historian [[DisappearedDad father has mysteriously disappeared]], saying he's going to find her MissingMom. Growing up with him, she loves history as much as he did, and doesn't believe a word of it. While she travels through the capitals of Europe to find him, she reads some letters of his that he's left behind, and [[{{Doorstopper}} slowly]] unravels the truth about her father's past, her missing mother, whom she had previously presumed dead, and her whereabouts.
But what does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with anything? The answer to this, and the questions put up by her father's letters are found by the narrator as she travels from dusty libraries in Amsterdam to major cities all over Europe.
''The Historian'' is Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel, published in 2005 when the world was in the middle of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-mania. And thus some consider it to be the vampire book we all passed up.
As a reminder: '''this is not a horror novel.''' Not to be confused with the academic journal of the same name. Or any other historians, for that matter.
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!!This novel contains the following tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Absolutely, totally averted.
* BadassBookworm: Many, many characters.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Master James and Helen at the end.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Helen.
* DisappearedDad: Paul. Rossi, to Helen.
* {{Doorstopper}}: The reason some people passed up the book, because 600+ pages is ''long'' no matter how you look at it.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Years after Dracula's apparent death, the narrator receives one of his dragon books, suggesting that either he's resurrected, or [[DragonAscendant someone else is restarting his activities]].]]
* FramingDevice: The heroine's parents' letters, which basically tell around 75% of the story.
* HappilyMarried: The Boras. [[spoiler:Paul and Helen, for about a few years. Then it gets worse.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Helen at the end, when it takes one shot with a SilverBullet to down Dracula.]]
* LastNameBasis: Stephen Barley.
* TheMentor: Bartholomew Rossi, to Paul.
* MissingMom: The heroine's mother, whom she thinks is dead. [[spoiler:Helen Rossi is still alive and kicking.]]
* MixedAncestry: Helen.
* NoNameGiven: The heroine. It's mentioned that she's named after her maternal grandmother, but we never learn ''her'' name either.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Boy howdy.
* PurpleProse: It drifts into this occasionally.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Paul and Helen, who go from a young man and a young woman stuck together because of their love for one person and are constantly snarking at each other to a married couple with a daughter; Barley and the narrator.]]
* SecretPolice: A given when the protagonist travel through the Eastern Bloc.[[spoiler: Have some unexplained interest in capturing Dracula.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: Audiobook only! When the narrator and her traveling companion find themselves forced to share a hotel room -- with only a single, narrow bed and not even a rug -- the audiobook has them laugh in slightly hysterical reaction, kiss ... and [[FadeToBlack Fade To Silence]]. The book itself takes the scene farther ... far enough to reveal that the heroine and Barley go ''no'' farther and actually do absolutely nothing beyond kissing.
* SilverBullet: Noted as one of the few things that can actually kill a vampire: one to the heart will instantly kill it. Helen carries around a gun in her purse with specialized ones.
* StatuesqueStunner: Helen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Again, Helen, who is a Type B.
* TrendCovers: For ''TheDaVinciCode''.
* TheOrder: [[spoiler:Professor Bora is part of one founded in the 15th century to combat Dracula.]]
* {{Uberwald}}: Deliberately averted: part of the novel's intention is to depict Eastern Europe realistically instead of as a stereotypical evil fairyland.
* VampireBitesSuck: [[spoiler:Three bites will turn you into one.]]
* WickedCultured: [[spoiler: Dracula]]
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[[caption-width-right:150:Oh, and it's long.]]
Some vampires are [[ILoveYouVampireSon parents]]. Some are [[LesbianVampire homosexual]]. Others are [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly]]. Others are portrayed as those you see on television played by Creator/BelaLugosi. (And then some are all of the above.) And then there are [[Literature/{{Twilight}} those vampires that manage to cause such a ''stir'' in some circles...]]
And then there are [[{{Dracula}} the real thing.]]
A [[FramingDevice story within a story]], ''The Historian'' chronicles the adventure of a young [[NoNameGiven nameless]] 16-year-old girl who finds an old vellum-bound book in her father's library. Upon hearing her father's explanation of the book, she learns about his travels to Istanbul and meeting Helen, his adviser's beautiful daughter. The narrator becomes increasingly interested in the story of {{Dracula}}.
But it doesn't end there.
The narrator's calm, peaceful life in Amsterdam is disrupted when her historian [[DisappearedDad father has mysteriously disappeared]], saying he's going to find her MissingMom. Growing up with him, she loves history as much as he did, and doesn't believe a word of it. While she travels through the capitals of Europe to find him, she reads some letters of his that he's left behind, and [[{{Doorstopper}} slowly]] unravels the truth about her father's past, her missing mother, whom she had previously presumed dead, and her whereabouts.
But what does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with anything? The answer to this, and the questions put up by her father's letters are found by the narrator as she travels from dusty libraries in Amsterdam to major cities all over Europe.
''The Historian'' is Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel, published in 2005 when the world was in the middle of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-mania. And thus some consider it to be the vampire book we all passed up.
As a reminder: '''this is not a horror novel.''' Not to be confused with the academic journal of the same name. Or any other historians, for that matter.
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!!This novel contains the following tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Absolutely, totally averted.
* BadassBookworm: Many, many characters.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Master James and Helen at the end.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Helen.
* DisappearedDad: Paul. Rossi, to Helen.
* {{Doorstopper}}: The reason some people passed up the book, because 600+ pages is ''long'' no matter how you look at it.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Years after Dracula's apparent death, the narrator receives one of his dragon books, suggesting that either he's resurrected, or [[DragonAscendant someone else is restarting his activities]].]]
* FramingDevice: The heroine's parents' letters, which basically tell around 75% of the story.
* HappilyMarried: The Boras. [[spoiler:Paul and Helen, for about a few years. Then it gets worse.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Helen at the end, when it takes one shot with a SilverBullet to down Dracula.]]
* LastNameBasis: Stephen Barley.
* TheMentor: Bartholomew Rossi, to Paul.
* MissingMom: The heroine's mother, whom she thinks is dead. [[spoiler:Helen Rossi is still alive and kicking.]]
* MixedAncestry: Helen.
* NoNameGiven: The heroine. It's mentioned that she's named after her maternal grandmother, but we never learn ''her'' name either.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Boy howdy.
* PurpleProse: It drifts into this occasionally.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Paul and Helen, who go from a young man and a young woman stuck together because of their love for one person and are constantly snarking at each other to a married couple with a daughter; Barley and the narrator.]]
* SecretPolice: A given when the protagonist travel through the Eastern Bloc.[[spoiler: Have some unexplained interest in capturing Dracula.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: Audiobook only! When the narrator and her traveling companion find themselves forced to share a hotel room -- with only a single, narrow bed and not even a rug -- the audiobook has them laugh in slightly hysterical reaction, kiss ... and [[FadeToBlack Fade To Silence]]. The book itself takes the scene farther ... far enough to reveal that the heroine and Barley go ''no'' farther and actually do absolutely nothing beyond kissing.
* SilverBullet: Noted as one of the few things that can actually kill a vampire: one to the heart will instantly kill it. Helen carries around a gun in her purse with specialized ones.
* StatuesqueStunner: Helen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Again, Helen, who is a Type B.
* TrendCovers: For ''TheDaVinciCode''.
* TheOrder: [[spoiler:Professor Bora is part of one founded in the 15th century to combat Dracula.]]
* {{Uberwald}}: Deliberately averted: part of the novel's intention is to depict Eastern Europe realistically instead of as a stereotypical evil fairyland.
* VampireBitesSuck: [[spoiler:Three bites will turn you into one.]]
* WickedCultured: [[spoiler: Dracula]]
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