The Marquise of O (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Heinrich Von Kleist; Andrew Miller (foreword); Richard Stokes (translator)

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9781843910541: The Marquise of O (Hesperus Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1843910543 ISBN 13: 9781843910541

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2003

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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, some months later, can it be that she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent, although failing to convince her prudish family of her honour, she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself...

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New translation of one of the greatest works of German Literature

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German writer and poet Heinrich von Kleist was one of the most passionate and brutal of the Romantic writers and one of the first to attack Enlightenment rationalism. His short stories and plays, widely criticised during his lifetime, dealt with the turmoil and conflict of human existence, and the full influence of his achievement can be seen in writers and thinkers such as Kafka, Kierkegaard and Thomas Mann.

Andrew Miller has written a number of novels, including Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and Oxygen, short-listed for the Booker and Whitbread Prizes.

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