To escape the worries of Berlin, the first-person narrator and his beloved, Princess Lydia, travel to Sweden in the early 1930s and spend several weeks at the idyllic Gripsholm Castle. The visit of Lydia's friend Billie interrupts their romantic solitude, leading to a tender, summery, and playful love triangle that also has erotic undertones. However, when the three of them rescue a little girl from the tyranny of a nearby children's home, the unclouded lightness of their idyll is sharply disturbed. Tucholsky's most popular book! A journalist, writer, poet, and social critic all at once, Tucholsky was one of the most significant publicists of the Weimar Republic. The author himself describes Gripsholm Castle as an omelette soufflée—due to its lightness and cheerfulness. Features: Surbalin Linea with decorative embossing.