The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
History / True Crime
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
· 466 p
#1 NYT BestsellerNational Book Award Finalist20th Century Classictensedarkhaunting
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1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. “As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last…
Pages
466
Vintage
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Reader feel
Historical Detail10
Worldbuilding9
Narration9
Pacing9
Narrative Tension9
Prose8
Emotional depth7
Plot twists7
My journey
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