In this novel, an equestrian statue of Charles IV is known only as the Horse of Stone, and the main character lusts after the daughters of a man who cooked for his hero on the fields of Volturno.
In this novel, an equestrian statue of Charles IV is known only as the Horse of Stone, and the main character lusts after the daughters of a man who cooked for his hero on the fields of Volturno. The writer of the tract "Fifty Years of Misrule" and a former ambassador to Britain, Don Jose Avellanos, dies in disappointment. Avellanos' daughter falls in love with a journalist and separatist, who later commits suicide, and Giselle and Linda fall in love with the main character, who has their father, Giorgio Viola, take over the role of lighthouse keeper in order to keep his operations a secret. Those operations begin when Martin Decoud kills himself and a store of metal is left on the island of Great Isabel, originally from the San Tomé silver mine controlled by Charles Gould. Concerning revolutions in the Republic of Costaguana, for ten points, name this Joseph Conrad novel with a title character whose real name is Gian' Battista.
In this novel, an equestrian statue of Charles IV is known only as the Horse of Stone, and the main character lusts after the daughters of a man who cooked for his hero on the fields of Volturno.
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