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Nervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton (1980, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10014005667X
ISBN-139780140056679
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038279116
Product Key Features
Book TitleNervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Austria & Hungary, Royalty, Historical
Publication Year1980
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorFrederic Morton
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.4 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN80-017493
Reviews"Riveting." -- The New York Times "A remarkable and unusual slice of history." --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "As lush, beguiling, and charming as an emperor's waltz" -- Publisher's Weekly "1888/1889 is my favorite year in the life of 'the imperial City,' and Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendor is my favorite book about Vienna." --John Irving, author of The World According to Garp "...a spirited tale of Viennese life."-- Kirkus Reviews, "A remarkable and unusual slice of history." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "As lush, beguiling, and charming as an emperor''s waltz" — Publisher''s Weekly "1888/1889 is my favorite year in the life of ''the imperial City,'' and Frederic Morton''s A Nervous Splendor is my favorite book about Vienna." —John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, "A remarkable and unusual slice of history." --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "As lush, beguiling, and charming as an emperor's waltz" -- Publisher's Weekly "1888/1889 is my favorite year in the life of 'the imperial City,' and Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendor is my favorite book about Vienna." --John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, "A remarkable and unusual slice of history." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "As lush, beguiling, and charming as an emperor's waltz" — Publisher's Weekly "1888/1889 is my favorite year in the life of 'the imperial City,' and Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendor is my favorite book about Vienna." —John Irving, author of The World According to Garp
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal943.6/04/0924
Grade ToUP
SynopsisA National Book Award Finalist A "riveting" ( New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empire On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still. Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds , deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler., On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still. Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds , deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.
LC Classification NumberDB851
