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THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE (PUSHKIN BLUES) By Antal Szerb & Len Rix **Excellent**
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- ISBN-10
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- Publication Name
- Pushkin Press
- Type
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1782274472
ISBN-13
9781782274476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038473394
Product Key Features
Original Language
Hungarian
Edition
4
Book Title
Queen's Necklace
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Hoaxes & Deceptions, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / France, Historical
Publication Year
2019
Genre
True Crime, Fiction, History
Book Series
Pushkin Blues Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A sparkling slice of 18th century life." - Paul Bailey, Independent "An 18th-century scam involving Marie Antoinette, an ambitious jeweller, a charlatan doctor and a countess on the make is the subject of this engaging book. Antal Szerb was a Hungarian novelist who wrote what he called this 'real history' in 1942 and died in a labour camp in 1945. Knowing his fate lends poignancy to his witty, learned and illuminating portrayal of the ancien regime on the brink of the Revolution." - Katie Owen, Telegraph 's Pick of the Paperbacks " The Queen's Necklace is a wonderful book; both thoughtful and blasting, and another revelation of Szerb's light-footed erudition." - Ali Smith 'Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century." - Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive." - Alberto Manguel, Financial Times "Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Dewey Decimal
894.511332
Synopsis
A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. An eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself were all involved. 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PH3351.S86
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