The King in the Golden Mask
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob's collaging of primary source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy and medieval witchcraft, Schwob's stories portray clergymen furtively attending medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine no…
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Weitere Autoren: Schluter, Kit (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-939663-62-7
- EAN: 9781939663627
- Produktnummer: 34398399
- Verlag: Wakefield Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 351 KB
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