The Queen's Necklace

"A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" 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.
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  • Artikelnummer SW9781908968784110164
  • Autor find_in_page Antal Szerb
  • Mit find_in_page Len Rix
  • Autoreninformationen ANTAL SZERB was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of… open_in_new Mehr erfahren
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  • Verlag find_in_page Pushkin Press
  • Seitenzahl 379
  • Veröffentlichung 06.06.2013
  • ISBN 9781908968784

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