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A Drama in Livonia: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When prejudice infects the courtroom, can justice survive?
Professor Dimitri Nicolef is a respected academic and rising political figure in Russian-controlled Livonia, representing the aspirations of the ethnic Russian population against the entrenched power of the Baltic German elite. When a bank employee is found murdered at a remote inn with fifteen thousand rubles missing, Nicolef becomes the prime suspect-he was one of only two people present, he owes money to powerful German bankers, and most damningly, he refuses to explain his mysterious journey.
Written by Jules Verne in 1893 but withheld from publication until 1904, A Drama in Livonia is a gripping detective novel and courtroom thriller that explores how ethnic prejudice corrupts justice. As the investigation unfolds, every ambiguous piece of evidence is interpreted through the lens of German-Russian antagonism, transforming a murder case into an ethnic confrontation that threatens to destroy an innocent man and his family.
Verne departs radically from his signature adventure novels to deliver a psychologically acute legal thriller that anticipates modern understanding of systemic bias and wrongful conviction. With theatrical precision and mounting suspense, he shows how even procedurally fair systems can produce profoundly unjust outcomes when prejudice shapes perception.
Published just one year before Verne's death, during the height of the Dreyfus Affair in France, this lesser-known masterwork reveals a writer deeply engaged with European politics, ethnic conflict, and the fragility of justice. A compelling mystery with enduring relevance-sophisticated, suspenseful, and disturbingly contemporary.
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