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What is a crown worth when taking it costs peace—and love must answer to duty?
In A Son of the Immortals, Louis Tracy brings love into conflict with royalty. A crown taken by force carries a price, and private feeling collides with public duty. This romantic adventure turns on a question: what happens when the demands of rank stand in the way of the heart?
The novel belongs to the old-fashioned adventure tradition of royal intrigue, danger and devotion. Its world holds palaces, roads and hidden meetings, with strong feelings and clear lines between right and wrong. At its center lies the uneasy promise of power: a crown taken unjustly does not bring its wearer peace.
What you’ll discover
- Love against duty Feel the pull between private devotion and the public demands of royal rank.
- The cost of power Explore the uneasy bargain behind a stolen crown and the peace it cannot secure.
- A world of intrigue Enter a landscape of palaces, dangerous roads and hidden meetings where rank shapes choices.
- Adventure with strong feeling Follow a tale that places danger and devotion at the heart of its appeal.
- Right and wrong matter Discover an adventure whose clear moral lines give the struggle over power its weight.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy a quick romantic adventure with a witty young hero, a brave heroine, scheming courtiers, a sharp-tongued artist and a Balkan throne, in the spirit of Ruritanian romance.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Paris artist meets a prince
- A throne arrives in a Paris flat
- A night train and a plan
- The King who asks permission
- Schemers in Paris and a hunchback's bargain
- Joan on the train and in the White City
- A siege in the hotel
- Suspicion and the pressure to part
- The council, the letter and the confrontation
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Alec DelgradoA cheerful polo-playing prince living in Paris who wants to earn his own living, and who ends up with a Balkan crown.
- Joan VernonA bright American art student who copies paintings in the Louvre and loves Alec, but fears what marriage to a king would cost him.
- Felix PoluskiA small hunchbacked Polish painter, once a revolutionary, who sings constantly and protects Joan and Alec with sharp wit.
- Lord Adalbert BeaumanoirA cheerful English polo player and Alec's loyal friend, who treats every danger as a joke and stands by him.
- General Paul StampoffA fierce old Serbian exile and soldier who helps Alec win the throne and is certain that a Slav bride is vital.
- Prince Michael DelgradoAlec's vain, spendthrift father, who loves his dinner hour and his allowance and dreads real power.
- Constantine BelianiA smooth Greek financier who plots with Julius and wants to control the new king through money.
- Count Julius MarulitchAlec's handsome, scheming cousin, who hopes to rule Kosnovia and plans to use Joan against Alec.
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Il figlio degli immortali
by Louis Tracy · 1909
A Paris polo player leaves for the Balkans with a sword in brown paper, and a throne waiting.
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A Son of the Immortals is a romantic adventure novel by Louis Tracy, set in Paris and in the Balkan kingdom of Kosnovia. It follows a young man who is an idle prince in the cafes and polo fields of Paris until one evening changes his life.
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A Paris artist meets a prince
The story opens on a May morning in Paris. Joan Vernon, a lively American art student, leaves her cheap lodging near the Sorbonne and crosses the city to the Louvre. She is copying Caravaggio's The Fortune Teller in the Grande Galerie. On the Pont Neuf she meets a young man she has been seeing for three weeks, Alec Delgrado.
Alec is a polo player and a gentleman of leisure. He walks her to the Louvre and carries her easel. He is far from an idler by nature, but he has been living on a small allowance. When Joan presses him about his name, he admits that what the artist Rudin said at their first meeting was simply true. He is a Serene Highness, Prince Alexis Delgrado, son of a Kosnovian prince living in exile.
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What is A Son of the Immortals about?
It tells of Alec Delgrado, a Paris prince in exile, who is called to the throne of the Balkan state of Kosnovia after a royal murder. His love for Joan Vernon, an American artist, tests both his crown and his character.
Who is Felix Poluski in the book?
Felix is a small, hunchbacked Polish painter who copies Murillo's Virgin in the Louvre. He hums constantly, claims to be an old anarchist and bomb maker, and becomes Joan's closest friend and Alec's quiet protector.
What does the title A Son of the Immortals mean?
It comes from a speech Joan quotes in the first chapter, about the goddess Pallas Athene, who drives her chosen heroes, called sons of the Immortals, along strange paths through danger and battle.
The author
Louis Tracy
1863–1928 · British novelist
Louis Tracy was a British writer who lived from 1863 to 1928. He was born in Liverpool, England, and wrote novels, including mysteries and romances. His books included The Albert Gate Mystery, published in 1904, The Silent Barrier, published in 1910, and One Wonderful Night, published in 1912.
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