The Czar's Madman

Informationen zum Autor Jaan Kross was born in 1920. He studied law at the University of Tartu and taught law until his arrest and deportation, with countless other Estonians, to Siberia in 1946. On his release in 1954, he returned to Tallinn and devoted himself to poetry and to translating the classics, including Shakespeare, Balzac and Stefan Zweig. Later, his interest in Estonia's chequered history made him turn his attention to the historical novel, and he established his reputation as one of Europe's outstanding practitioners of this genre. He was generally regarded as an Estonian writer of world class. He died in December 2007. Klappentext Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of 'protection'. Zusammenfassung Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of 'protection'.

Product details

• Authors: Jaan Kross, Kross Jaan
• Assisted by: Anselm Hollo (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2001
• EAN: 9781860465796
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-579-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Historical novel, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary