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In a frozen empire of watchful police, even the hope of freedom must learn to hide.
Mór Jókai’s The Green Book; Or, Freedom Under the Snow takes you into imperial Russia, where strict rank shapes life and talk of liberty stays quiet. At its heart stands a secret society whose green rule book holds the hopes of people who want reform.
Around that hidden cause move idealists, spies and powerful men. Love and loyalty become part of the political struggle, and public causes reach into the home. Jókai brings the sweep of adventure romance to a world of conspiracy and divided hearts, where a longing for freedom meets the weight of imperial power.
What you’ll discover
- Freedom under watch Enter a vast Russian empire where watchful police make the hope of reform dangerous.
- The green book’s promise Discover a secret society whose rule book becomes an emblem of hidden hopes.
- Love amid political danger Follow the meeting of personal feeling and public causes, where loyalty pulls in different directions.
- A world of conspiracy Encounter idealists, spies and powerful men within a bold historical adventure.
- A Hungarian view of liberty Explore a Russian struggle through a novelist whose own experience includes failed revolution.
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You will love this if you enjoy historical novels with spies, secret meetings and big feelings, or if you like imperial Russia, poets and stage divas, and stories where love and politics pull the same people apart.
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- A shot at a stag starts a feud
- A spymaster wants the green book
- A roulette table hides a revolution
- A poet breaks the censor's red pencil
- The Czar has a secret daughter
- A flood shakes the city and its beliefs
- Love ties Pushkin to two girls
- Two couples and an empire's heir
- Freedom lies beneath the snow
Who’s who
- Zeneida IlmarineA Finnish born opera star, favorite of the Czar and quiet leader of the conspirators, who guards others at great personal cost.
- Alexander PushkinA young officer and poet in debt, proud, hot tempered and sworn to freedom, who is torn between three women.
- Prince Ivan GhediminA kind but weak nobleman, president of the Northern Union, who lives a double life and loves Zeneida.
- Princess Korynthia GhediminHis proud wife, who hates Zeneida, hides a secret about the Czar, and plots to keep control of her world.
- BethsabaA Circassian king's daughter raised in the Ghedimin house, who tells fairy tales and learns to love and to scheme.
- Sophie NarishkinA frail girl kept hidden by the Czar, who loves stories with sad endings and craves a life of her own.
- AraktseieffThe Czar's feared favorite and police chief, who guards the throne with spies and dreams of finding the green book.
- Chevalier GalbanA smooth agent who uses charm and women's hearts to uncover secrets for Araktseieff.
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Il Libro verde, ovvero Libertà sotto la neve
by Mór Jókai · 1879
A shot at a stag sparks a rivalry as spies hunt the green book of Russia's conspirators.
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Who fires a pistol at a stag in the middle of a royal hunt? In the opening chapters of The Green Book, a famous singer does, and that shot brings a bitter rivalry into the open.
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A shot at a stag starts a feud
The story opens in the Bjelostok forest. A rider follows a bloodied prisoner and gathers his frozen blood from the snow. Later, in St Petersburg, a royal hunt drives a stag toward patients returning from church.
A shot rings out at the gate of a park. A woman with reddish gold hair steps forward with a pistol in her hand. She is Zeneida Ilmarine, the Czar's favorite singer. Princess Maria Alexievna Ghedimin, who rides with the hunt, cries that the stag belongs to the emperor. Zeneida answers that the sick come first, then fires her last shot into the air.
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What is The Green Book by Mór Jókai about?
It follows a secret society of nobles, officers and a famous singer who plot to bring freedom to imperial Russia in 1825, while the Czar's favorite hunts for the hidden book that lists every conspirator.
What is the green book in the novel?
It is the secret register of the conspiracy, kept in a chest hidden under a roulette table. It holds plans for a republic and, as the police fear, the names of the rebels.
Is The Green Book a true story?
It is a historical novel. Real people such as Pushkin, Czar Alexander and the Decembrists appear, and the 1825 uprising happened, but Jókai invents many scenes and characters to dramatize them.
The author
Mór Jókai
1825–1904 · Hungarian novelist
Mór Jókai was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He was born in Komárom in 1825 and died in Budapest in 1904. He wrote in Hungarian and published novels throughout the nineteenth century. His novels include The Golden Man, published in 1872. He also wrote plays.
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