In London in 1827 Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) published this
travel novel employing eye-witness accounts, history, and anecdote
to expose the oppressive Austrian regime under Emperor Francis I
and his Prime Minister Metternich. His political observations are
supplemented and embellished by his many detailed descriptions of
the fads and fancies of the age, anecdotes and court gossip
surrounding major historical figures, as well as by his dry wit
which all combine to produce an eminently readable and informative
book. During his lifetime Charles Sealsfield was a mystery, an
unknown in so far as his identity was concerned. As a young
Austrian emigre, his first publications were colorful descriptions
of the fledgling United States on the one hand and of the moribund
Austrian Empire on the other. Within a few years he became widely
celebrated as the author of popular fiction about the American
West, considered by many to be superior to American-born authors
such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.
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