DEV>A Letter from the Late Professor Stone

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So... yeah... this was another one of those ones that got away from me. Not it bad way, luckily.

I've been reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and let me say that it is AMAZING! If you're a fan of awesome reading, I highly recommend it. Here's a synopsis.

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 in part on Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Historian is not a horror novel, but rather an eerie tale. It is concerned with history's role in society and representation 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."^[3] 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.

--Source: Wikipedia

Yeah, it's pretty fantastic. The book is told heavily through letters left behind from a previous generation, and got me wanting to write something along those line. I'm ashamed to say that the plot pretty closely mirrors that of The Historian, applied to my own universe, but I say fuck it. It was fun to write, and that's what matters. Hopefully it'll be as fun for you guys to read! n..n

EDIT 8/31/2016: Fixed some spelling and grammar errors. See? I'm working people!!
EDIT 9/2/2017: Found myself re-reading this and cleaned up a few more mistakes.

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