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a novel
By Andrei Codrescu
"The blood countess" was published by Simon & Schuster in 1995 - New York, it has 347 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The blood countess” Metadata:
- Title: The blood countess
- Author: Andrei Codrescu
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 347
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publish Location: New York
- Dewey Decimal Classification: 813/.54
- Library of Congress Classification: PS3553.O3 B58 1995
“The blood countess” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Fiction - Women murderers - Countesses - History - Fiction, historical, general - Hungary, fiction - Serial murders, fiction - Journalists, fiction - Criminals, fiction - New york (n.y.), fiction - Fiction, biographical - Fiction, horror
- People: Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614)
- Places: Hungary
- Time: Turkish occupation, 1526-1699
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 347 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL1117877M - OL17766W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 31606403
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 94044062
- ISBN-10: 0684802449
- All ISBNs: 0684802449
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Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary (1560-1613) was beautiful, well educated in the best traditions of the Renaissance, and wealthy beyond measure. Upon assuming her seat of power at the age of sixteen, the Countess set out upon a course of revelry and debauchery, aided by her spiritual adviser, Darvulia, and by her faithful bevy of overwrought maids. Eventually, time and an excess of increasingly bizarre pleasures led the Countess to fear the loss of her beauty. She was advised by her witches to take baths in the blood of virgins to regenerate her body. A long procession of young girls were "chosen" to spend the night with Elizabeth. Six hundred and fifty young women are said to have died in the Countess's castles. Countess Elizabeth Bathory's direct descendant, Drake Bathory-Kereshtur, is a Hungarian emigre living in New York near the end of the twentieth century. He considers himself a failure at life. His relationships with women have been disasters. He is haunted by the Hungary of his youth, which he had to flee during the Hungarian revolution of 1956. After the collapse of Communism, he returned to Hungary to find his youth, but found instead something a lot more horrifying: the pervasive presence of his ancestor, Countess Bathory. When he returns to the United States, he confesses to a hideous crime before a New York magistrate. This exquisite novel is told through Drake's eyes, as he searches for his roots and comes to terms with this gruesome part of his family history.
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