The Da Vinci Code (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Brown
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The twenty-first century
- Setting: France and England
- Principal Characters: Robert Langdon, Sophie Neveu, Jacques Saunière, Sir Leigh Teabing, Bishop Aringarosa
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Suspense, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Genealogy, France or French people, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Art or artists, Twenty-first century, Religion, England or English people, Christianity, Detectives, Grandparents or grandchildren, Painting or painters, Jesus Christ, Great Britain, Holy Grail or Grail quest
- Locales: France, England
Dan Brown’s enthralling The Da Vinci Code spans two thousand years of Western history and examines such timeless enigmas as Mona Lisa’s smile and the secret of the Holy Grail. Robert Langdon (a character in other Brown novels) investigates the late-night murder of Jacques Saunière, the brilliant and influential seventy-six-year-old curator of the Louvre museum. The police find the body of the older distinguished gentleman in close proximity to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and surrounded by gruesome ciphers.
Before he died, the wounded Saunière seized one...
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