Savrolaby Sir Winston Churchill | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
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| Pages: | 241 |
| Year of Publication: | 1900 |
| Date Read: | 11/29/1996 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. The scene is a Mediterranean republic where President Antonio Molara is ruling the country in a manner reminiscent of the Metaxas dictatorship in Greece. However, under the leadership of Savrola, a well-bred young Democrat, the National Party is on the up and up. In the inevitable confrontation, Molara enlists his beautiful wife Lucile to compromise Savrola. But Lucile falls in love with the hero and saves his life in a confrontation with a doubly enraged President. Savrola rallies the forces who overthrow the tyrant.but is then set upon by a "Secret Society" (thinly disguised Socialists) led by the demonic Kreutz, a sort of prototype Trotsky. Savrola and Lucile escape into exile. Churchill says they eventually return, but no further account of their later adventures (this was the only piece of fiction he wrote) was ever written. |
| My Rating: | 7 |