Told By The Death's Head A Romantic Tale. Translated by S.E. Boggs. Illustrated.

JOKAI, MAURUS:

Published by London, Grant Richards, n.d. ca1903 1st edition

About this Item

Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Grey cloth with green printed design and decorative lettering to front. Gilt lettering to spine. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some overall fading and rubbing to cloth on cover, edges and corners bumped and rubbed, small nicks to ends of spine. Endpapers slightly darkened, glue repairs at front and rear. Neat pencil inscription to front ?A.P. Offe, March 1903.? Number written on rear of title page in blue coloured pencil ?1168.? One or two occasional minor handling marks to pages, a couple of cracks between gatherings p33, 97, & 117. Small minor stain to bottom edge of pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 348pp. Illustrated with 4 B&W full-page plates by Charles Hope Provost. Scarce supernatural novel. Maurus Jokai (1825 - 1904) was a Hungarian novelist who took part as a journalist in the revolution of 1848. He wrote about 200 novels, including Timar's Two Worlds, Black Diamonds, and The Romance of the Coming Century. ?It is about someone who confesses to crimes so heinous that the court cannot even figure out a sentence severe enough to pass; so he starts to tell the full story of how he came to commit these crimes, and we get an entertaining lesson in moral relativism. It combines the entertainment style of the Arabian nights with a similar story arc to Voltaire's Candide or Zadig, and the intellectual wit of someone like Flaubert or Anatole France. Not one of Jokai's best, but Jokai's best are the world's best.?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Told By The Death's Head A Romantic Tale. Translated by S.E. Boggs. Illustrated.
• Publisher: London, Grant Richards, n.d. ca1903 1st edition
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