Royal Highness

Royal Highness, was written by German novelist, short story writer, philanthropist, essayist and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, and was first published in English, as translated by A. Cecil Curtis in 1909. The work is a light romantic comedy set in a small, decaying, and decadent German duchy, describing its revival by an American intellectual woman. It is a macrocosm of German society prior to the Great War. Portraying everyone from the impoverished nobility to the artisan class. Highlighting the themes of decay and re-invigoration so common in Mann's work.