A Nervous Splendour

Author : Frederic Morton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014005667X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nervous Splendor written by Frederic Morton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1980-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Author : Frederic Morton
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nervous Splendour written by Frederic Morton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederic Morton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823276
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder at Twilight written by Frederic Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.

Author : Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher : Helen Marx Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885586582
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Splendor written by Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ) and published by Helen Marx Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.

Author : Derek Matravers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191018066
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction and Narrative written by Derek Matravers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is that there is some requirement that a reader imagine it. Derek Matravers argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of 'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with representations more generally. In place of the flawed consensus, he offers an account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative whether that narrative is fictional or non-fictional. The view that emerges, which draws extensively on work in psychology, downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction and largely dispenses with the imagination. In the process, he casts new light on a succession of issues: on the 'paradox of fiction', on the issue of fictional narrators, on the problem of 'imaginative resistance', and on the nature of our engagement with film.

Author : Nicholas Parsons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199888485
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vienna written by Nicholas Parsons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, Vienna began the long climb back to the prosperous and cultivated city of 1.7 million inhabitants that it is today. Subjected to constant infusions of new, Vienna has both assimilated and resisted cultural influences from outside, creating its own sui generis culture.

Author : Julian Dodd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198769733
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Mind, and Narrative written by Julian Dodd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer the reader entry points into many of the most exciting contemporary debates in these areas of philosophy. Topics covered include the role that narrative thinking plays in our lives, our imaginative engagement with fiction, the emotions and their role in the motivation of action, the connection between artistic activity and human well-being, and the appreciation and ontological status of conceptual artworks.

Author : Steven Beller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521407274
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938 written by Steven Beller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich of 1867 and its demise in the sweeping events of the 1930s. The author shows that, in terms of personnel, Jews were predominant throughout most of Viennese high culture, and so any attempts to dismiss the "Jewish aspect" of the intelligentsia are refuted. The book goes on to explain this "Jewish aspect," dismissing any unitary, static model and adopting a historical approach that sees the "Jewishness" of Viennese modern culture as a result of the specific Jewish backgrounds of most of the leading cultural figures and their reactions to being Jewish.

Author : Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637890
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: