Graustark
1901
An American businessman boards a train to Vienna, expecting nothing more than a tedious journey home. Instead, he encounters a woman of extraordinary beauty traveling with her uncle and aunt, and his life changes forever. She is a princess of Graustark, a tiny, mysterious kingdom tucked away in the mountains of Eastern Europe, and she is fleeing an unwanted engagement. What begins as a chance meeting on a train becomes a daring escape, a secret identity, and a love that defies kings and borders. McCutcheon weaves together political intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and swooning romance into a tale that captured the imagination of a generation. The novel sold over two million copies in its first decade, spawning sequels and multiple film adaptations. For readers who crave adventure, exotic locales, and a love story with everything stacked against it, Graustark delivers in spades.
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“For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“If love were the only thing, Iwould follow you”
— George Barr McCutcheon
“There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“God save the King!"Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile."God save 'em both!" he whispered.””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....””
— George Barr McCutcheon
“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.””
— George Barr McCutcheon
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