Stolen from Gypsies,9780967544809

Stolen from Gypsies

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ISBN13: 9780967544809
ISBN10: 0967544807
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Aubrey House Pub
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Summary

Ambrogio Smythe, a hypochodriacal British nobleman, is obsessed by childhood memories of Gypsies. Ambrogio leaves his ancestral estate and makes his way to Florence, always aware of the lurking menace of the hated Napoleon Bonaparte. In Tuscany, Ambrogio meets a wondering storyteller, hears a magical yarn about a Gypsy babe kidnapped by a demon, buys a shred of parchment as evidence, and begins to write his own version of the saga, vowing one day to publish it in the finest Morocco leather. Noble Smith has created a historical comedy within a historical comedy that is as absurd and enjoyable as Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Goldman's The Princess Bride. The characters leap off the page in full costume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi
The Gypsies
1(4)
A Beginning
5(14)
Carthusalem
19(6)
The Accountant
25(4)
The Merchant
29(4)
The Beloved
33(4)
The Lackey
37(4)
Dreadful Tidings
41(6)
The Bazaar
47(6)
The Magician
53(8)
The Transmutation
61(10)
The Royal Scamp
71(12)
The Fop and His Drudge
83(10)
The Hairless Half-Uncle
93(16)
An Interlewd [sic]: The Blacksmith and The Dancing Lady
109(6)
The Lovers
115(14)
The Schemers
129(10)
The Clock Sniffer's Tale
139(6)
The Argonaut
145(16)
The Hellhag
161(8)
An Exchange of Missives
169(4)
The Happy Cock
173(8)
The Cromnyomancer
181(6)
The Temptress
187(16)
The Monomachists
203(10)
The Cagelings
213(18)
The Masqueraders (And an Ending)
231(16)
Epilogue 247(6)
Glossary 253

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