The Marquise of O-

Informationen zum Autor Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is the first of the great dramatists of nineteenth-century German literature. Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. Ingenious Pain! his first novel! won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize! the Grinzane Cavour Prize & the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ingenious Pain & his second novel Casanova are being adapted for film. His latest novel! Oxygen! was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001. Klappentext An ingenious "whodunit" and one of the greatest works of German literature! "The Marquise of O-" subverts the 18th-century notion of the infallibility of man and reveals the true ambiguity and caprice of humanity. Held captive by a band of unspeakable ruffians! the Marquise of O- is rescued before they can subject her to a fate worse than death. So how can it be that! some months later! she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent! although failing to convince her prudish family of her honor! she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself. Heinrich von Kleist is the first of the great dramatists of 19th-century German literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Andrew Miller; Introduction; The Marquise of O-; The Earthquake in Chile; The Foundling; Biographical note

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich von Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist
• Assisted by: Richard Stokes (Translation)
• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2003
• EAN: 9781843910541
• ISBN: 978-1-84391-054-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Hesperus Classics; Hesperus Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature