Witchfire

Witchfire

“The way to fight fire is with fire,” continued Serevitch, “and the way to fight rumor is with rumor.”

Published:
1931
Pages:
323
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Languages:
  • English

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Prinz Friedrich von Tegen, a loyal and practical statesman, acts alongside the suave Russian spy Boris Serevitch to preserve the Austria through the war. Threatened by counter spies and power-hungry nobles, they lie their way through intrigue, rebellion, and the scathing romances left behind.

Andre Tellier’s third and final novel.

Editions

  • New York : Greenberg (1931). 323pp.
  • London : Stanley Paul and Co. (1932) as The Great Intrigue.

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Author Details:

The dust jack cover of Twilight Men.

André Tellier

André Tellier (11 April 1902- 10 July 1992) was a French-American poet, novelist and inventor. He lived among the Bohemian crowd of Greenwich Village, sharing his work with magazines like The Raven Anthology or pianists like Kosti Vehanen, the accompanist of Marian Anderson.

Each of his three novels contain queer themes:

The Magnificent Sin (1930) follows an opera singer's numerous love scandals before she meets and loses a woman who completes her.

Twilight Men (1931), set in France and New York, is a semi-autobiographical account of a poet finding community and worth despite the wiles of his father and the mistress hired to seduce him towards normalcy.

Witchfire (1931) is a WWI political thriller set in Austria, where a ruthless statesman and his accomplice, a Russian ex-spy, install a doppelganger on the Hapsburg throne.

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