This novel includes descriptions of a dice game for the hand of a harlot as well as the dissection of Francesco.
This novel includes descriptions of a dice game for the hand of a harlot as well as the dissection of Francesco. It also describes the creation of machines of war by the visitor Bernardo. The title character later participates in a campaign against Il Toro and the House of Montanza. But when peace is finally declared, he helps to recapture the advantage by poisoning all of his master's enemies, including the Prince's best friend, Don Riccardo, at a banquet. By the end of the novel, he is sent to the dungeon for killing the Princess. It begins with the title character revealing that he strangled his predecessor, Jehoshaphat, who had been a buffoon and had given his kind a bad name. For ten points, identify this 1944 work about a malevolent 26 inch man, the masterpiece of Par Lagerkvist.
This novel includes descriptions of a dice game for the hand of a harlot as well as the dissection of Francesco.
{The Dwarf}