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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 secret fiancée. He resolves to win her love for himself, and through a clever stratagem, exchanges his fate for the other man's. Risking everything to attain the woman and station of his dreams, he becomes the Swedish cavalier, staying one step ahead of exposure. Later, he sacrifices everything so that is daughter won't learn of his secret past. In this book he considered is masterpiece, Leo Perutz has created a picaresque world of barons and brigands, swashbuckling dragoons and spurned lovers, gentleman farmers and masked robbers, and lucky parchments, magic spells, and mystical visions. Part adventure, part historical novel of war-ravaged Europe, The Sweddish Cavalier is also a moral tale of deceit, betrayal, and redemption. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.… (más)
En la Europa oriental de principios del s. XVIII, en la frontera entre Prusia y Polonia, el joven rey Carlos XII de Suecia sueña con un imperio que abarque desde el Báltico al Negro, y casi lo consigue. Un joven oficial de sus tropas, desertor perseguido, toma el lugar de un asaltante de caminos para escapar de la horca. El ladrón, a su vez, toma del lugar del oficial. Y la novela es la historia de este último: la endemoniada persecución de una felicidad que se escurre, hasta la caída final, anunciada y por ello tanto más patética, cuando la Muerte hace valer irónicamente sus derechos.
En la Europa oriental de principios del s. XVIII, en la frontera entre Prusia y Polonia, el joven rey Carlos XII de Suecia sueña con un imperio que abarque desde el Báltico al Mar Negro - y casi lo consigue. Un joven oficial de sus tropas, desertor perseguido, toma el lugar de un asaltante de caminos para escapar dela horca. El ladrón, a su vez, toma el lugar del oficial. Y la novela es la historia de este último: la endemoniada persecución de una felicidad que se escurre, hasta la caída final, anunciada y por ello tanto más patética, cuando la muerte hace valer irónicamente sus derechos. Con la perspectiva del tiempo este relato regido por el Ángel de lo Extraño, se nos presenta hoy como uno de los logros más singulares de la literatura alemana de este siglo.
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Foreword Maria Christine, nee von Tornefeld, formerly von Rantzau, subsequently married to the Danish privy councillor and envoy extraordinary Reinhold Michael von Blohme, was a much-admired beauty in her youth.
They had spent the day in hiding, but now that darkness had fallen they were making their way through a sparse pine forest.
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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 secret fiancée. He resolves to win her love for himself, and through a clever stratagem, exchanges his fate for the other man's. Risking everything to attain the woman and station of his dreams, he becomes the Swedish cavalier, staying one step ahead of exposure. Later, he sacrifices everything so that is daughter won't learn of his secret past. In this book he considered is masterpiece, Leo Perutz has created a picaresque world of barons and brigands, swashbuckling dragoons and spurned lovers, gentleman farmers and masked robbers, and lucky parchments, magic spells, and mystical visions. Part adventure, part historical novel of war-ravaged Europe, The Sweddish Cavalier is also a moral tale of deceit, betrayal, and redemption. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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