The Swedish Cavalier
A thief and a nobleman, both down on their luck, cross paths on a bitter winter's day in 1701. One, known locally as The Fowl-Filcher, is fleeing the gallows; the other, the callow Christian von Tornefeld, has escaped execution to fight for his Swedish king. Neither will reach his destination. Sent with a message to secure aid for von Tornefeld, the thief falls in love with his companion's secret fiancee. He resolves to win her love for himself, and through a clever stratagem, exchanges his fate for the other man's. Risking everything to attain the woman and station of his dreams, he becomes the Swedish cavalier, staying one step ahead of exp…
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Weitere Autoren: Brownjohn, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61145-885-5
- EAN: 9781611458855
- Produktnummer: 15397188
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Gattung: A Novel
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 247 g
- Gewicht: 247
Über den Autor
Leo Perutz, a contemporary of Franz Kafka, was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned from Israel to Austria in the early fifties and died there in 1957. Now recognized as a twentieth-century master, he is the author of eleven novels that blend varying degrees of history, legend, suspense, and the fantastic.
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