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Dracula Chronicles: Son of the Dragon
Paperback
Series: Dracula Chronicles, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781475192339
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Feb 13 2013
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dracula is among the most famous names in history-and one of the least understood.
Before history knew him as Vlad the Impaler, he was the second son of Wallachia's ruler: highly educated, fluent in several languages, fascinated by history, and destined to stand behind an elder brother expected to inherit the throne. Vlad had little desire to rule. His ambitions lay in travel, learning, and the wider currents of European life.
When Ottoman raiders carry off a band of Wallachian youths, Vlad defies his father and sets out after them. The pursuit draws him beyond the protection of the royal court and into a contest of violence, loyalty, and political necessity. What he witnesses-and the decision he ultimately makes-will carry him toward the Ottoman world and alter the course of his life.
Drawing upon four decades of research and his perspective as a native of Transylvania, Victor T. Foia recreates fifteenth-century Eastern Europe in vivid historical detail: its royal courts and ruined churches, its competing faiths, its dynastic rivalries, and the gathering power of the Ottomans.
Son of the Dragon opens Dracula Chronicles, an epic historical saga tracing the transformation of a reluctant Wallachian prince into the formidable ruler history would call the Impaler.
This is not the story of a supernatural monster. It is the story of the real Dracula-and of the world that made him.
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