The Queen's Tiara

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-900850-42-1
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Great Swedish Classics

'Over Sweden's capital hovered the foul genius of regicide. Above, its wings were black as a midnight in March; beneath, red as the flames bursting out in a theatre at a masquerade.' One of Sweden's greatest classics, this moving novel weaves the tale of the beautiful but sexless androgyne Tintomara with whom both sexes fall in love, around the assassination of the 'Theatre King' Gustav III on the stage of his own opera house at a masked ball in 1792. Tintomara too comes to a tragic end in what was to have been merely a melodramatic entertainment for the court. But not before s/he causes all sorts of disastrous complications and confusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almqvist, C. J. L.

Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love

Weitere Mitwirkende

Austin, Paul Britten

Britten-Austen, Paul

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) was a leading radical thinker of his day. One of Sweden's greatest classics, The Queen's Tiara was first published in Great Britain in 2001. Other works include the novella Sarah Widebeck, Sweden's first feminist work of fiction. Accused of trying to poison his landlord with arsenic, Almqvist fled to the United States, contracted a bigamous marriage with a Philadelphia landlady and spent his last years playing piano in a bar. Tintomara, Lars-Johan Werle's opera based on Almqvist's novel, has been performed in London at Sadler's Wells.