Description
Product ID: | 9781860465796 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Czar's Madman |
Authors: | Author: Jaan Kross |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of 'protection'. Timo von Bock''s release by the Czar from nine years'' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron''s troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of ''protection'': a man would need to be insane, after all, to have taken a Czar at his word when asked for a candid appraisal of the state''s infirmities. |
Imprint Name: | The Harvill Press |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-07-27 |