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The Queen's Necklace
Antal Szerb
出版Pushkin Press, 2013-06-06
主題History / GeneralFiction / Classics
ISBN19089687889781908968784
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qXl5AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. At its heart was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled—and the web of fraud, folly and self-delusion it had inspired. In Szerb's last major work, a witty and often surprising account of events, the story is used as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age. Written in war-torn Hungary in the early 1940s, it constitutes a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which the writer lived and died.