Books with title Prince Otto a Romance

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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Prince Roman was written by Joseph Conrad in 1910 and first published in 1911 in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. It was posthumously collected in Tales of Hearsay, which was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1925. The tale is based on the real life story of Prince Roman Sanguszko of Poland (1800–81).

"fascinated by the sincerity of a feeling moving serenely among the artificialities of its anxious and fastidious agitation, watched them with benevolent indulgence and an amused tenderness. "The marriage was the social event of 1828, in the capital. Just forty years afterwards I was staying in the country house of my mother's brother in our southern provinces. "It was the dead of winter. The great lawn in front was as pure and smooth as an alpine snowfield, a white and feathery level sparkling under the sun as if sprinkled with diamond-dust, declining gently to the lake—a long, sinuous piece of frozen water looking bluish and more solid than the earth. A cold brilliant sun glided low above(...)".

"Events which happened seventy years ago are perhaps rather too far off to be dragged aptly into a mere conversation. Of course the year 1831 is for us an historical date, one of these fatal years when in the presence of the world's passive indigna- tion and eloquent sympathies we had once more to murmur 'Vo Victis' and count the cost in sorrow. Not that we were ever very good at calculating, either, in prosperity or in adversity. That's a lesson we could never learn, to the great exasperation of our enemies who have bestowed upon us the epithet of Incorrigible… ."

Prince Otto is an interesting (and happy) choice as the first volume to appear in the Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Everyone will recognise that it is not one of Stevenson's best known works, but it is a remarkably interesting work and a splendid example of what Stevenson could do even when writing at his ordinary best rather than his very best. As an opening volume it reminds us that there is more to Stevenson than 'just' his most famous works. More importantly, perhaps, it reminds us of the extraordinary range and variety of his work. Children's poetry, young adult fiction, crime fiction, travel writing, historical fiction, memoir, (post)colonial fiction, short story — if Stevenson was not the first to write each of these, he is one of the great innovators in each genre, someone who moved it forward in new and exciting ways, proving himself one of the most versatile and innovative writers of the modern age. But while his contemporaries recognised his brilliance as a writer, his reputation declined quite rapidly after his death, at least in the English-speaking world. Luckily, and none too soon, his star is again on the rise and the New Edinburgh Edition is only one of the many manifestations of recent renewed interest in his work.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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