The Visit Of The Royal Physician
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2003
Summary
Adultery, insanity, enlightenment, and the bluest blood—this compelling and prize-winning historical novel exposes the seamy underside of eighteenth-century Denmark.
It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee. Guldberg, a cold-blooded religious fanatic, is determined to annihilate the Enlighte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099447054 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099447053 |
| Author: | Per Olov Enquist, Tiina Nunnally |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
One of those rare, magical books that creates its own world so modestly that it is only halfway through that you realise you have been entranced
One of the most dramatic and memorable historical novels to have hit these shores in years…Fierce, direct, imbued with wintry, windswept poetry, Enquist’s style makes 18th-century court intrigue as rough and raucous as a mafia feud * Independent *
One of those rare, magical books that creates its own world so modestly that it is only halfway through that you realise you have been entranced * Daily Telegraph *
An impressive historical novel…brilliantly mixing motifs of madness, role-playing and control * The Times *
An elegant and gorgeous novel * Los Angeles Times *
was hard to put down. Love, idealism, corruption and insanity in the Danish court of the Enlightenment: the world he draws is so complete, it s a very absorbing read. * Rachel Seiffert, Daily Telegraph *
Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist is one of Sweden’s most acclaimed writers, a novelist, playwright, and poet whose works have been published in 26 countries. The Visit of the Royal Physician is his first novel since Captain Nemo’s Library in the early 1990s.
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