The Goose Girl

This is classic dramatic fiction of the type that was so popular at the turn of the 20th century...an American going into an unnamed Eastern European, Germanic country to tilt at windmills and embroil himself in local politics and fall in love in the process. There are a great many twists, and much less lovemaking and tilting at windmills than some such fiction. There are spies to be found, and a crime of a generation ago to be atoned for. Who really stole the Duke's daughter? Have they finally found the right girl? And who is the myseterious vintner who is so eager to hide his identity from our hero? And through it all weaves the quiet tale of the goose girl, Gretchen.

I read it in a single afternoon and enjoyed the escape to the imagined past to the fullest!