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The Queen's Necklace-Antal Szerb,Len Rix (Translator)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781906548087
- EAN
- 9781906548087
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Queen's Necklace
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Product Information
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything-an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in the Revolution just four years later. In this unusual, witty and often surprising version of the story, the great Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb takes the narrative as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age-including aspects of it seldom considered by more orthodox historians. The author's vast knowledge is worn very lightly and the book teems with amusing anecdotes, but it is, at heart, a deeply personal work, a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which it was written.
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
ISBN-13
9781906548087
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92166490
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Queen's Necklace
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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