Marquise Of O, The

Description:
Held captive by a band of unspeakable ruffians, the Marquise of O - is rescued before they can subject her to a fate worse than death. So, how, some months later, can it be that she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent, although failing to convince her prudish family of her honour, she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself...

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Andrew Miller; Introduction; The Marquise of O-; The Earthquake in Chile; The Foundling; Biographical note

Author Biography:
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is the first of the great dramatists of nineteenth-century German literature. Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. Ingenious Pain, his first novel, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize & the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ingenious Pain & his second novel Casanova are being adapted for film. His latest novel, Oxygen, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001.