TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinbeck,John
AU  - Morsberger,Robert Eustis
AU  - Morsberger,Katharine M.
TI  - The short reign of Pippin IV: a fabrication 
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 9780143039464
AV  - PS3537 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Political satire
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - France
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Queens
N1  - 1; 2
N2  - In "The Short Reign of Pippin IV," John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Hristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippins wife, Queen Marie, who might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called egg king of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians, guards and gardeners
ER  -