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The Bombardment of Abo
A Novella Based on a Historical Event in Modern Times
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Artikel-Nr:
9789633865736
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.09.2022
Seiten:
110
Autor:
Carl Spitteler
Gewicht:
152 g
Format:
207x124x9 mm
Beschreibung:
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924) was a swiss poet and writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. Marianna D. Birnbaum is Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. She is also involved in the Medieval Studies Department's programs at the Central European University, Budapest.
This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook''s Finnish fiancé. The story takes place during a Nordic offshoot of the Crimean conflict, known as the Åland War, in which a British-French naval force attacked military and civilian facilities on the coast of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1854¿1856. The location of the novella is Åbo, today¿s Turku, where soldiers in the Russian garrison enjoy life, Cossacks dance and drink, and the governor¿s wife is preoccupied about her cook¿s marriage to a local lad, against which the governor and the English admiral devise a plot.