A nervous splendor
Book by Frederic Morton
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A National Book Award FinalistA "riveting" (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empireOn January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince... Google Books
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This is a delightfully chatty and intimate non-fiction view of Vienna over a period of some months from late 1888 through the New Year to 1889 – a year when ...
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 ... On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince ...
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This account of life in Vienna in 1888 and 1889 is held together by the remarkable and tragic story of the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf, but takes in a broad ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Oct 30, 1980 · “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.”
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Simultaneous narratives about famous artists, composers, political leaders, writers, and members of the royal family weave an image of Vienne Austria. The books ...
Mar 30, 2009 · The Wittgenstein family had a genius for misery.
These threads are woven into a fascinating tale which centers on the murder-suicide pact of the young heir to the great empire, Crown Prince Rudolph, and his ...
