A King Reluctant
First edition (UK)
AuthorVaughan Wilkins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
PublisherJonathan Cape
Macmillan (US)
Publication date
1952
Media typePrint

A King Reluctant is a 1952 historical adventure novel by the British writer Vaughan Wilkins. The plot revolves around the idea that the young Louis XVII, successor to his executed father, survived the French Revolution and turns up at Tenby on the Welsh coast.

Film adaptation

In 1957 it was adapted into the film Dangerous Exile directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Keith Michell and Belinda Lee.[1]

References

  1. Goble p.501

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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