The Takeover (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1973-1976
- Setting: Nemi, Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1970’s, Mythology or myths, Power, personal or social, Gods or goddesses, Landlords or tenants, Truthfulness and falsehood, Kidnapping, Cults, Property, Italy or Italians, Materialism, Forgery or forging
- Locales: Italy, Nemi, Italy
Characters Discussed
Maggie Radcliffe, the Marchesa Tullio-Friole (TEW-lee-oh-free- OH-lay), a wealthy American in her forties. Charming and egocentric, Maggie draws to her a dissolute circle who find her great wealth and her prodigality equally attractive. Exhibiting a frivolous, fickle, and careless temperament, she seems to those around her to be easy prey to various criminal schemes. She is, however, relentless in pursuit of those who attempt to bilk her of her fortune and ruthless in meting out what she sees as justice against them. Having been deceived into believing that...
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