The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is one of the best-selling American novels of all time. Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon—the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons—The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie …
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is one of the best-selling American novels of all time. Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon—the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons—The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus 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 Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, 1982), although Brown 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 been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Catholic Church, and also consistently criticized by scholars for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The novel became a massive worldwide bestseller, selling 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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- BNF ID:
- 14580209w
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The Da Vinci Code: the Illustrated Edition
467 pages
English language
Published Oct. 29, 2004
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- 978-0-593-05425-3Copied ISBN!
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- 56062591
The Da Vinci Code
454 pages
English language
Published March 18, 2003
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- 978-0-385-50420-1Copied ISBN!
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- 85266
The Da Vinci Code
467 pages
English language
Published Nov. 2, 2004
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- 978-0-385-51375-3Copied ISBN!
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- 44775747
The Da Vinci Code
489 pages
English language
Published March 1, 2006
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- 978-1-4000-7917-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 54156735
The Da Vinci Code
454 pages
English language
Published 2003
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- 978-0-593-05152-8Copied ISBN!
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- 1978444
The Da Vinci Code
467 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Broadway Books.
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- 978-0-7679-2603-4Copied ISBN!
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- 44775802
The Da Vinci Code
624 pages
English language
Published March 31, 2009
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- 978-0-307-47427-8Copied ISBN!
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- 20510108
The Da Vinci Code
605 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2003 by Corgi Books.
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- 978-0-552-14951-8Copied ISBN!
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- 56062537
Da Vinci code
574 pages
French language
Published March 3, 2004 by JC Lattès.
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- 978-2-7096-2493-0Copied ISBN!
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- 83173935
Da Vinci code
744 pages
French language
Published April 30, 2005 by Presses Pocket.
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- 978-2-266-14434-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 972
Da Vinci code
513 pages
French language
Published 2004 by France Loisirs.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7441-7554-1Copied ISBN!
Da Vinci code
523 pages
French language
Published 2004 by JC Lattès.
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- 978-2-7096-2693-4Copied ISBN!
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- 1194701
Da Vinci code
745 pages
French language
Published 2003
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- 978-2-266-19835-6Copied ISBN!
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- 56062756
Sakrileg
608 pages
German language
Published April 8, 2006 by Bastei Lübbe.
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- 978-3-404-15485-2Copied ISBN!
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- 1091342
Da Vinci Code
482 pages
French language
Published Oct. 1, 2016 by JC Lattès.
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- 978-2-7096-5928-4Copied ISBN!
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