num_pages: 514
description: I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship. So begin the journals of Roberto della Griva, a seventeenth-century nobleman who finds himself on board a mysterious ship anchored in the bay of a beautiful island he cannot reach. The story of how he got there, and what he finds on board, are just a part of this exquisitely crafted novel that celebrates the romance, war, politics, philosophy, and science of the Baroque period in all its lush and colorful detail.
language: English
title: The Island of the Day Before
titlecomplete: The Island of the Day Before
characters: Roberto de la Grive, Tycho Brahe, Escondida, Monsieur de Saint-Savin, Marquis de Cinq-Mars, Arthénice, Monsieur Gaffarel, Roberto della Griva, Monsieur de Toiras
genres: Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Historical, Italy, Italian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 15291
publisher: Penguin