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Quando la giovane studiosa di alchimia Diana Bishop ritrovò nella biblioteca Bodleiana di Oxford un manoscritto rimasto nascosto da secoli, la sua vita cambiò completamente: non solo perché il potere di quel manoscritto le permise di accettare la sua vera natura di strega, ma anche perché grazie a esso conobbe Matthew Clairmont, vampiro, professore di genetica appassionato di Darwin.

Nella biblioteca Bodleiana di Oxford, Diana Bishop, giovane storica e studiosa di alchimia, scopre un misterioso manoscritto: prima di restituire irrimediabilmente il libro, il tocco della sua mano sulla copertina rilegata in pelle riaccende in lei la magia che aveva tentato invano di bandire dalla sua vita dopo la morte dei genitori.

Restare giovani per sempre, sfuggire alla tirannia del tempo: essere un vampiro vuol dire anche questo, e quando Matthew de Clermont fa la sua bizzarra e inquietante proposta al giovane Marcus - diventare, come lui, un non-morto - sta facendo molto più che salvargli la vita sul campo di battaglia. Gli sta offrendo l'opportunità di sconfiggere il tempo. È la fine del Settecento, e Matthew incontra il giovane chirurgo Marcus in piena Rivoluzione americana.

Una strega e un vampiro. La loro è stata una grande storia d'amore. Ma poteri più oscuri sono all'opera... L'incontro tra Diana Bishop, studiosa e strega di Oxford, e il vampiro genetista Matthew Clairmont è stato fatale: incredibilmente attratti l'uno dall'altra, nonostante i tabù che volevano le loro specie nemiche e divise, si sono innamorati. Insieme hanno viaggiato nell'Inghilterra elisabettiana, hanno risvegliato poteri oscuri e ribaltato il vecchio ordine del loro mondo...

Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont. This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past...and the key to their future.

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliff-hanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them.

After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchant­ing series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-breaking exception.

Diana og Matthews forhold strider mod en gammel pagt, som skal sikre ro og afstand mellem arterne. Efter Diana er stødt på et gammelt fortryllet manuskript, forstår hun, at nogen vil hende til livs, og sammen med Matthew forsøger hun at finde ud af, hvad manuskriptet, kaldet Ashmole 782, indeholder af hemmeligheder. Efter at have rejst tilbage i tiden til elizabethanske London vender parret tilbage til nutiden for at stå ansigt til ansigt med nye udfordringer og gamle fjender.

On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life, free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire.

In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling. Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past. When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.

Discover the truths, the history, the myths and the magic behind the best-selling All Souls trilogy. Fall under the spell once more with this all-encompassing insider's guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. The All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, featuring historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont, delves into mythology, alchemy, literature and architecture. And history is brought to life.

A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion, and the trilogy has now sold more than two million copies in the United States and appeared in 38 editions around the world. All Souls fans have been captivated from the start by the many sources of inspiration Harkness draws on in her novels. Here, with her signature historian's touch, she offers an encyclopedic look at the series.

Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the 18th century. Over 200 years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself. But her transformation will prove as challenging now as it was for Marcus when he first encountered Matthew de Clermont, his sire. While Phoebe is secreted away, Marcus relives his own journey from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution, to a bloody finale in New Orleans.