# When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories

Author: Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919; Wolfe, Archibald J. (Archibald John), 1878- [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49595

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=When+the+King+Loses+His+Head%2C+and+Other+Stories+Andreyev&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There stood once in a public place a black tower with massive fortress-like walls and a few grim bastioned windows. It had been built by robber barons, but time swept them into the beyond, and the tower became partly a prison for dangerous criminals and grave offenders, and partly a residence. In the course of centuries new structures were added to it, and were buttressed against the massive walls of the tower and against one another; little by little it assumed the dimensions of a fair sized town set on a rock, with a broken skyline of chimneys, turrets and pointed roofs. When the sky gleamed green in the west there appeared, here and there, lights in the various parts of the tower. The...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/11/index.md)
- [PART VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/21/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/7/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/22/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/20/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/19/index.md)
- [PART V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-the-king-loses-his-head-and-other-stories-49595/chapters/18/index.md)