The Prince of Graustark - Softcover

McCutcheon, George Barr

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ISBN 10: 0809530961 ISBN 13: 9780809530960

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2021

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The fiction of George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) proved so popular in his day that he, along with Anthony Hope, the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, invented a whole new genre, now called the "Graustarkian novel," a charming product of a more innocent time when the Balkans could be the scene of adventurous romances set in imaginary countries. McCutcheon's Graustark no doubt borders Hope's Ruritania and Avram Davidson's more recent Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania. It was a place where an American adventurer could find himself or herself adrift, but rapidly caught up in intrigues, captures and escapes, and the perilously-hinged destiny of (at the very least) a royal throne or two. The Prince of Graustark (1914) is the one entrty in this best-selling series, which also includes Graustark, Truxton King, and Beverly of Graustark.

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About the Author:

George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928), an American novelist and playwright, was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He attended Purdue University but was dismissed when he failed his exams in second year. He then began working as a reporter for the Lafayette Journal and became City Editor of the Lafayette Daily Courier in 1893. He is famous largely because of his Graustark series of novels. In total, McCutcheon wrote forty novels and also wrote plays, Brood House (1910), and Mary Midthorne (1911).

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