The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the …
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. The Da Vinci Code provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book has, however, been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Catholic Church, and consistently criticized for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The novel nonetheless became a massive worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 languages. In November 2004, Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 2006, a film adaptation was released by Columbia Pictures.
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The Da Vinci Code
Mass Market Paperback, 605 pages
English language
Published April 6, 2003 by Corgi Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-552-14951-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 974093450
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Paperback, 454 pages
English language
Published July 10, 2006 by Anchor Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-27767-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1230282296
The Da Vinci Code
Hardcover, 454 pages
English language
Published March 18, 2003 by Doubleday.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-50420-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 654909625
- Goodreads:
- 85266
Da Vinci Koden
Hardcover, 459 pages
Norsk bokmå language
Published by Bazar.
- ISBN:
- 978-82-8087-015-5Copied ISBN!
Da Vinci code
mass market paperback, 745 pages
French language
Published July 10, 2003 by JC Lattes.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-19835-6Copied ISBN!
Da Vinci-koden
eBook, 502 pages
Swedish language
Published June 13, 2013 by Albert Bonniers Förlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-91-0-013946-9Copied ISBN!
Il codice da Vinci
528 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 22, 2003
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-52341-3Copied ISBN!
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