Royal Highness [Paperback]

Royal Highnessis the delightfully ironic tale of a small, decadent German duchy and its invigoration by the intellect and values of an independent-minded American woman. Peopled with a range of characters from aristocrat to artisan,Royal Highnessprovides a microcosmic view of Europe before the Great War.

Thomas Mann(1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great novels of the twentieth century, includingBuddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers,andDoctor Faustus.Russell A. Bermanis the author ofThe Rise of the Modern German Novel.
Alan Sicais the author ofWeber, Irrationality, and Social Order.

The great virtue ofRoyal Highnessis its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual, legitimacy, even the political economy of preindustrialized states. Alan Sica, author ofWeber, Irrationality, and Social Order