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The Countess: A Novel (Hardback)
$24.15 - Save $2.69 (10%) - RRP $26.84 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The CountessCountess Erzsebet Bathory, the Blood Countess, is one of the most prolific female serial killers in history. A member of Hungarian nobility, she murdered at least 35 girls, and, legend has it, bathed in their blood. Johns recreates Bathory's story in her own words, in this novel. 304 p.
Full description- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
- Published: 01 November 2010
- Format: Hardback 304 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780307588456 ISBN 10: 0307588459
- Sales rank: 527,927
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The Countess by Rebecca Johns
The Countess is a wonderful story on the life of Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Known as the Blood Countess she was an extradinay beauty who was also brilliantly clever. Her story starts with her in her cell. A tower room which she was walled into. The Countess writes her story to her son and so we learn of her life. One of love and loss. Of a belief in her self to be right because of the position she was born into. A position that brings out an unbalivible cruelty. Yet you can't help but feel sorry for her. Rebecca Johns has done a wonderful story of the life and death of The Countess. She has managed to make you feel as if you have been transported back in time to view this remarkable woman's life. Also you get to experience the life of the servants in her employment. Those with no power and those with a little and how they deal with it. This is a book to be read again and again. by April Hollingworth
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