The Winged Shoes of Emydio Alves

The seventeenth book by V. M. Straka, published in 1942.

The most maligned of his latest works, critics and readers alike ragged on it. Radical leftists regarded it the work of a self-satisfied apostate.

Content
It features Alves, a man from the Sunken City (later Coriolis features a "Sudden City"), who is captured by the Viscount's army, stripped by his shoes and put to work in the fields wearing the boots of a dead man. As with other Straka books, question of identity is essential.

It contains a whimsical love story with a woman with a beautiful singing voice. There is also a scene where Alves finds himself alone with the 5th daughter of the Prince of Santiago and she removes her clothing.

It contains the phrase "was and is unwavering, from first to last" (p.268)

P. 377 contains the phrase "If I'm going to die, I'll damned well die on a beach."