The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140187499 ISBN 13: 9780140187496

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called egg king” of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians, guards and gardeners. This edition includes an introduction by Robert Morsberger and Katharine Morsberger.

About this title

About the Author:

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

Review:

Enchanting satirical comedy . . . highly amusing . . . entrancing. (Saturday Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140187499
• ISBN 13: 9780140187496
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192