Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Birth date: November 28, 1793
Died: September 26, 1866
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's Books
Over Sweden's capital hovered the foul genius of regicide. Above, its wings were black as a midnight in March; beneath, red as the flames bursting out in a theatre at a masquerade.Translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin. First line:'Two things are white, Tintomara. Innocence - and arsenic...