Robert Digby and Tales from the Carpathians

Chapter 11

“The book was called Tales from the Carpathians, a dingy 19th C tome published privately by an English collector named Robert Digby”

I did wonder if this was real but alas on reading the list of fictional novels within the Historian from wikipedia…see list below …it isn’t real.

I did try to find out if there was a historical Robert Digby

There was a British soldier who hid behind enemy lines during the WW1 and had a wife and child until the Germans executed him. A lovely story but too recent.

There was a Robert Digby from early in the 18th C , a wealthy family by all accounts but they seemed to have been more involved with America.

Ah well a good tale.

Works invented by Elizabeth Kostova

In The Historian:

• The untitled dragon books which different characters in the book find.
• Ballads of the Carpathians
• The Cannibals by Henricus Curtius
• The “Chronicle” of Zacharias of Zographou by Atanas Angelov and Anton Stoichev
• The Damned by Giorgio of Padua
• Sisyphus by Thomas Aquinas
• Fortunes of an Assassin by Erasmus
• History of Central Europe by Lord Gelling
• The King of Tashkani by William Shakespeare, as a “lost work”
• Life of Saint George
• Philosophie of the Aweful
• Tales from the Carpathians published by Robert Digby
• The Torture Commissioned by the Emperor for the Good of the People by Anna Comnena
• This picture of Vlad the Impaler from wikipedia

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