Prince Otto E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

“Prince Otto” is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson of 1885. Otto is a prince of a small German court of the eighteenth century, his indolent character leads him to delegate all power to his wife Amélie-Séraphine, which in turn is influenced by the Prime Minister Baron Gondremark. The war of invasion to the near duchy of Gerolstein, will be the beginning of the end for the three.

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Prince Otto

by

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To Nelly Van De Grift

Book I— Prince Errant

In which the Prince Departs on an Adventure

In which the Prince Plays Haroun-Al-Raschid

In which the Prince Comforts Age and Beauty and Delivers a Lecture on Discretion in Love

In which the Prince Collects Opinions by the Way

Book II— Of Love and Politics

What Happened in the Library

‘On the Court of Grunewald,’ Being a Portion of the Traveller’s Manuscript

The Prince and the English Traveller

While the Prince is in the Ante-Room . . .

. . . Gondremark is in My Lady’s Chamber

The Prince Delivers a Lecture on Marriage, with Practical Illustrations of Divorce

The Prince Dissolves the Council

The Party of War Takes Action

The Price of the River Farm; in which Vainglory Goes Before a Fall

Gotthold’s Revised Opinion; and the Fall Completed

Providence Von Rosen: Act the First She Beguiles the Baron

Providence Von Rosen: Act the Second She Informs the Prince

Providence Von Rosen: Act the Third She Enlightens Seraphina

Relates the Cause and Outbreak of the Revolution

Book III— Fortunate Misfortune

Princess Cinderella

Treats of a Christian Virtue

Providence Von Rosen: Act the Last In which she Gallops off

Babes in the Wood

Bibliographical Postscript to Complete the Story

To Nelly Van De Grift

(Mrs. Adulfo Sanchez, of Monterey)

AT last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to ‘Prince Otto,’ whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger in fact than a few sheets of memoranda written for me by your kind hand. The sight of his name will carry you back to an old wooden house embowered in creepers; a house that was far gone in the respectable stages of antiquity and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller in its younger days, and had come round the Horn piecemeal in the belly of a ship, and might have heard the seamen stamping and shouting and the note of the boatswain’s whistle. It will recall to you the nondescript inhabitants now so widely scattered:-the two horses, the dog, and the four cats, some of them still looking in your face as you read these lines; — the poor lady, so unfortunately married to an author; — the China boy, by this time, perhaps, baiting his line by the banks of a river in the Flowery Land; — and in particular the Scot who was then sick apparently unto death, and whom you did so much to cheer and keep in good behaviour.

You may remember that he was full of ambitions and designs: so soon as he had his health again completely, you may remember the fortune he was to earn, the journeys he was to go upon, the delights he was to enjoy and confer, and (among other matters) the masterpiece he was to make of ‘Prince Otto’!