Marbot: A Biography
by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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Die fiktive Lebensgeschichte eines kunstliebenden, englischen Adeligen im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts, der mit Künstlern und Dichtern dieser Zeit befreundet war.Tags
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I loved the idea of a fictional literary biography, but the specifics in this one were just a bit too strange for me.
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- Canonical title
- Marbot: A Biography
- Original title
- Marbot : eine Biographie
- Original publication date
- 1981
- Dedication
- For Silvia
- First words
- "If I am to lend credence to the myth, your Excellency," said the 24 year old Sir Andrew Marbot to Goethe, who had been enquiring as to the origin of his surname, "my family came from Périgord and arrived in England in the t... (show all)rain of the Norman Conquest."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With this question Marbot's notebooks end. He was the first to ask it. We are still waiting for the answer.
- Original language
- German
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- Languages
- 5 — Czech, English, French, German, Italian
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 2
