Truxton King A Story of Graustark edition by George Barr McCutcheon Harrison Fisher Literature Fiction eBooks
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Truxton King A Story of Graustark edition by George Barr McCutcheon Harrison Fisher Literature Fiction eBooks
Actually, I stumbled upon this series through another book! While re-reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I had not read since undergraduate school, Betty Smith's main character mentioned reading Beverly from Graustark. I downloaded that one to my Kindle only to be absolutely delighted with it!! So, after a little research, I found the rest! Truxton King was wonderful, too!! However, I have since learned there is a sequence. So, I am reading Graustark now to put it all in order.Marvelous reading!!! Each book has adventure, chivalry, romance (different from 19th+ century "romance"), and adventure (said that but worth repeating!).
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Truxton King A Story of Graustark edition by George Barr McCutcheon Harrison Fisher Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Truxton King is a young American. Not just any American, but strong, tall, brave, individual, and rich. The only kind of American McCutcheon likes to write about. Truxton is traveling about the world in search of adventure and romance and finds both in the little fictional country of Graustark. It's up to Truxton to protect the child-prince from the evil Communists who plot to kill him with a suicide bomber (yes, they had suicide bombers even back then) and take over the principality.
In order to "get" this book, it helps if you understand that Anthony Hope's classic adventure THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (a swashbuckling romance set in a mythical, but supposedly "realistic" country -- it's really a kind of fantasy, but a brilliant book in all respects) spawned a host of imitators, the most famous of which was George Barr McCutcheon's GRAUSTARK, a big bestseller of it's day. (There was a real trend in the beginning of the twentieth century of writers trying to self-consciously "bring back romance".)
This is a book in the Graustark series. Again, it's romantic adventure in an imaginary, but supposedly "actual" country. (I always imagine these places as being somewhere near Latvia or Lithuania.) It's readable, but suffers in comparison with the Hope classic -- it tends to go on and on much more than Hope's, for instance, the setup is nowhere near as clever as ZENDA, nor is the plot as tight.
A curiousity, no more.
Actually, I stumbled upon this series through another book! While re-reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I had not read since undergraduate school, Betty Smith's main character mentioned reading Beverly from Graustark. I downloaded that one to my only to be absolutely delighted with it!! So, after a little research, I found the rest! Truxton King was wonderful, too!! However, I have since learned there is a sequence. So, I am reading Graustark now to put it all in order.
Marvelous reading!!! Each book has adventure, chivalry, romance (different from 19th+ century "romance"), and adventure (said that but worth repeating!).
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