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By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Leo Perutz
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Description for By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Paperback. Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. This title brings Old Prague to life with a cast of characters ranging from alchemists to the angel Assel, and including the likes of Johannes Kepler and the outlaw prince Wallenstein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. In sixteenth-century Prague, seat of Christendom, he rules over an empty treasury and a court of parasites and schemers. Meanwhile in the ghetto, the Great Rabbi, mystic and seer, guides his people in the uneasy cohabitation of Jew and Christian, while the fabulously wealthy financier Mordechai Meisl has a hand in transactions across Europe and is reputed to be sustaining the treasury. His beautiful wife, Esther, forms a links of a different sort between the castle and the ghetto: By night under the stone bridge, she ... Read more
Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. In sixteenth-century Prague, seat of Christendom, he rules over an empty treasury and a court of parasites and schemers. Meanwhile in the ghetto, the Great Rabbi, mystic and seer, guides his people in the uneasy cohabitation of Jew and Christian, while the fabulously wealthy financier Mordechai Meisl has a hand in transactions across Europe and is reputed to be sustaining the treasury. His beautiful wife, Esther, forms a links of a different sort between the castle and the ghetto: By night under the stone bridge, she ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611458411
SKU
V9781611458411
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About Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz, a contemporary of Franz Kafka, was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned from Israel to Austria in the early fifties and died there in 1957. Now recognized as a twentieth-century master, he is the author of eleven novels that blend varying degrees of history, ... Read more
Reviews for By Night Under the Stone Bridge
A tantalizing blend of the occult and the laughable, of chaos and divine order ... Much of what Perutz depicts is eternal. The New York Times Book Review