...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

The Historian

165 statements
31 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

The Historian	type	TVTItem
The Historian	label	The Historian
The Historian	page	TheHistorian
The Historian	comment	Some vampires are parents. Some are homosexual. Others are friendly. Others are portrayed as those you see on television played by Bela Lugosi. (And then some are all of the above.) And then there are those vampires that manage to cause such a ''stir'' in some circles...And then there are the real thing.A story within a story, The Historian chronicles the adventure of a young 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 father has mysteriously disappeared, saying he's going to find her Missing Mom. 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 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 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.
The Historian	fetched	2023-08-27T19:30:03Z
The Historian	parsed	2023-08-27T19:30:03Z
The Historian	processingComment	Dropped link to TheMentor: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Historian	processingUnknown	TheMentor
The Historian	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Historian / int_11278f19	type	Plot-Triggering Book
The Historian / int_11278f19	comment	Plot-Triggering Book: 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.
The Historian / int_11278f19	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_11278f19	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_11278f19
The Historian / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
The Historian / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: 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.
The Historian / int_161f1ebf	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_161f1ebf	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_161f1ebf
The Historian / int_1c169242	type	The Order
The Historian / int_1c169242	comment	The Order: Professor Bora is part of one founded in the 15th century to combat Dracula.
The Historian / int_1c169242	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_1c169242	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_1c169242
The Historian / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Historian / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Dracula
The Historian / int_1c6ded94	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_1c6ded94	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_1c6ded94
The Historian / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Historian / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The heroine's parents' letters, which basically tell around 75% of the story.
The Historian / int_1e1afc1b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_1e1afc1b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_1e1afc1b
The Historian / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Historian / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Rossi, to Helen.
The Historian / int_28cd01ca	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_28cd01ca	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_28cd01ca
The Historian / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Historian / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Helen.
The Historian / int_2fb61faa	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_2fb61faa	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_2fb61faa
The Historian / int_4881cda1	type	Ãœberwald
The Historian / int_4881cda1	comment	Überwald: Deliberately averted: part of the novel's intention is to depict Eastern Europe realistically instead of as a stereotypical evil fairyland.
The Historian / int_4881cda1	featureApplicability	-1.0
The Historian / int_4881cda1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_4881cda1
The Historian / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Historian / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The reason some people passed up the book, because 600+ pages is long no matter how you look at it.
The Historian / int_55940b68	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_55940b68	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_55940b68
The Historian / int_5bf112dc	type	Vampire Bites Suck
The Historian / int_5bf112dc	comment	Vampire Bites Suck: The traditional three bites will turn you into one. This is the fate of Professor Bora's librarian friend, and nearly the fate of Helen.
The Historian / int_5bf112dc	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_5bf112dc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_5bf112dc
The Historian / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
The Historian / int_628d08d4	comment	Silver Bullet: 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.
The Historian / int_628d08d4	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_628d08d4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_628d08d4
The Historian / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Historian / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: The heroine's mother, whom she thinks is dead. Helen Rossi is still alive and kicking.
The Historian / int_66dfe36a	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_66dfe36a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_66dfe36a
The Historian / int_6c7a36fc	type	Vampire Refugee
The Historian / int_6c7a36fc	comment	Vampire Refugee: This is why 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.
The Historian / int_6c7a36fc	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_6c7a36fc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_6c7a36fc
The Historian / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Historian / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: 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 Helen herself jumps off a cliff to avoid Dracula, although she survives.
The Historian / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_6d332aea
The Historian / int_79a08ea0	type	Doom as Test Prize
The Historian / int_79a08ea0	comment	Doom as Test Prize: Dracula leaves arcane clues to his existence and whereabouts and then vampirizes and enslaves anybody talented enough to follow them.
The Historian / int_79a08ea0	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_79a08ea0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_79a08ea0
The Historian / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Historian / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Again, Helen, who is a Type B.
The Historian / int_7ef728b1	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_7ef728b1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_7ef728b1
The Historian / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
The Historian / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Years after Dracula's apparent death, the narrator receives one of his dragon books, suggesting that either he's resurrected, or someone else is restarting his activities.
The Historian / int_9e86e227	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_9e86e227	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_9e86e227
The Historian / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Historian / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: 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 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.
The Historian / int_a3912d0e	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_a3912d0e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_a3912d0e
The Historian / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
The Historian / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: A given when the protagonist travel through the Eastern Bloc. Have some unexplained interest in capturing Dracula, though Paul and Helen theorize they hope he could somehow resurrect the preserved bodies of Communist leaders for them.
The Historian / int_a8af3e53	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_a8af3e53	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_a8af3e53
The Historian / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Historian / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Absolutely, totally averted.
The Historian / int_a939d96a	featureApplicability	-1.0
The Historian / int_a939d96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_a939d96a
The Historian / int_a9722494	type	Trend Covers
The Historian / int_a9722494	comment	Trend Covers: For The Da Vinci Code.
The Historian / int_a9722494	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_a9722494	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_a9722494
The Historian / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Historian / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Helen.
The Historian / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_ae3d6438
The Historian / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Historian / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Helen at the end, when it takes one shot with a Silver Bullet to down Dracula.
The Historian / int_bcd27e37	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_bcd27e37	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_bcd27e37
The Historian / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Historian / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The Boras. Paul and Helen, for about a few years. Then it gets worse.
The Historian / int_bec0417c	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_bec0417c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_bec0417c
The Historian / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Historian / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Many, many characters. Also, Dracula himself.
The Historian / int_c3478f1d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_c3478f1d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_c3478f1d
The Historian / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Historian / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The heroine. It's mentioned that she's named after her maternal grandmother, but we never learn her name either.
The Historian / int_ca87e3ec	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_ca87e3ec	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_ca87e3ec
The Historian / int_d8e0e9f7	type	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
The Historian / int_d8e0e9f7	comment	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Rossi was made to forget that he ever met Helen's mother. At the end he remembers and Helen is able to forgive him.
The Historian / int_d8e0e9f7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_d8e0e9f7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_d8e0e9f7
The Historian / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Historian / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Barley's actual first name is Stephen, but nobody calls him that.
The Historian / int_e28f88b8	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_e28f88b8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_e28f88b8
The Historian / int_ea1fe5d3	type	Staking the Loved One
The Historian / int_ea1fe5d3	comment	Staking the Loved One: Professor Bora and Selim are forced to stake their librarian friend. 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.
The Historian / int_ea1fe5d3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_ea1fe5d3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_ea1fe5d3
The Historian / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Historian / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Master James and Helen at the end.
The Historian / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_eb81c601	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_eb81c601
The Historian / int_name	type	ItemName
The Historian / int_name	comment
The Historian / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Historian / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Historian	hasFeature	The Historian / int_name
The Historian / int_name	itemName	The Historian

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Historian	hasFeature	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Contemplative Boss / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Doom as Test Prize / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Newspaper-Thin Disguise / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Book / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a49658cd
The Historian	hasFeature	Ãœberwald / int_a49658cd

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.