Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Lost Prince - Free Press - 272 pages

Kept in a dungeon for his entire childhood, Kaspar Hauser turned up in Nuremberg in 1828 when he was 16. Barely able to talk or walk, Hauser was a virtual "wild child", and was murdered just a few years later in 1833. Who was Hauser? Why was he kept in a dungeon all those years? Who murdered him? Was he German royalty? Masson, whose expertise is the study of child abuse during Freud's time, now provides the first English translation of this great mystery. of photos.

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