The Swedish Cavalier - Paperback
by Leo Perutz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo Perutz, John Brownjohn (Translator)Publish date:2014-06-03Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611458855ISBN-10:1611458854UPC:9781611458855Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, JewishSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSRQX7785
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611458855ISBN-10:1611458854UPC:9781611458855Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, JewishSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSRQX7785
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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