The Fate of a Crown

Need an adventure story with plots and counterplots? Intrigue? A love interest? Politics? Murder? Follow our young American hero, Robert Harcliffe, as he goes on the adventure of his lifetime. A young man just out of college goes to Brazil as secretary of the prime mover in the revolution, and by so doing begins a series of adventures that run from tragic to comic, ending with the success of the conspiracy, a straightening out of many tangles, and the marriage of the hero to one of the most brilliant and beautiful conspirators. Written by the famous „Oz” author L. Frank Baum under the alias of Schuyler Staunton, „The Fate of a Crown” is a stirring novel of the events of a South American revolution against the monarchy at the turn of the 20th Century. It was Baum’s first novel for an adult readership.