A Nervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889
Morton, Frederic
ISBN 10: 014005667X ISBN 13: 9780140056679
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1980
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Synopsis:
A 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.
About the Author: Frederic Morton (1924-2015) was born in Vienna. Author of National Book Award finalist The Rothschilds, which became a hit Broadway musical, Mr. Morton also wrote several novels. His short fiction appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic, Playboy, and Hudson Review, as well as in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories and other anthologies.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: A Nervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: New Ed.