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1945Courts and courtiersDwarfsFictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Swedish fiction
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I AM twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large.
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Set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, this novel centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf Piccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on politcal intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege.
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First published 1945About the author
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