The Mad King

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From the book:ALL LUSTADT was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what. For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father. There had been murmurings then when the lad's uncle, Peter of Blentz, had announced to the people of Lutha the sudden mental affliction which had fallen upon his nephew, and more murmurings for a time after the announcement that Peter of Blentz had been appointed Regent during the lifetime of the young King Leopold, "or until God, in His infinite mercy, shall see fit to restore to us in full mental vigor our beloved monarch."

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Edgar Rice Burroughs' book The Mad King is set in the days before World War I. In Lustadt, the capital of a fictional European nation surrounded by war-bent European neighbors, the story opens with "little knots of excited men" standing in the streets listening for word of the rumored escape of their mad boy-King.

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Other Editions

• The Mad KingeBookFictionwise, Inc.2004-01-01
• The mad kingAce Books1964-01-01
• The Mad KingAce1979-02-01
• The Mad KingPaperbackBlue Unicorn Editions1998-07-01
• The Mad KingLibrary BindingQuiet Vision Pub2000-11-01
• The Mad KingPaperbackQuiet Vision Pub2000-11-01