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Queen's Necklace

Name: Queen's Necklace
Brand: Pushkin Press
SKU: 40894555
Price: 10.69 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Antal Szerb
ISBN: 9781908968784

Antal Szerb

Len Rix

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Publishers Pushkin Press, June 2013

"e;A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life"e; Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 P... Full description

Libristo code: 40894555

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"e;A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life"e; Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. At its heart was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled-and the web of fraud, folly and self-delusion it had inspired. In Szerb's last major work, a witty and often surprising account of events, the story is used as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age. Written in war-torn Hungary in the early 1940s, it constitutes a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which the writer lived and died.