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The Queen's Tiara (Great Swedish Classics)

The Queen's Tiara (Great Swedish Classics)

by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (Author), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (Author)

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    Illustrated 2001

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Synopsis

'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...

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 06 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 1900850427
ISBN 13: 9781900850421

Author Bio
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.