Book review: A Noble Madness: The dark side of collecting from antiquity to now by James Delbourgo

ALTHOUGH it did not reach print until the end of the 17th century (Charles Perrault published it in Mother Goose in 1697), the myth of Duke Bluebeard was widely known in Central Europe. Béla Balázs (1884-1948) wrote his version, known widely from ...