A Nervous Splendor

A Nervous Splendor PDF Author: Frederic Morton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014005667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
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.

Lost Splendor

Lost Splendor PDF Author: Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
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.

Vienna

Vienna PDF Author: Nicholas Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199888485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
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.

Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938

Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938 PDF Author: Steven Beller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521407274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
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.

Fiction and Narrative

Fiction and Narrative PDF Author: Derek Matravers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199647011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.

The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864

The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 PDF Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 732

Book Description
Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism. It contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography.

A Swankee Dandy Doodles

A Swankee Dandy Doodles PDF Author: David O'Leary
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 150351370X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
From random phrases, ideas, and observations and some finished poems and lengthy monologues, I managed over a period of almost a year to mine and extract "through a type of fishing" the current collection of writings contained in this book. It coincides and walks hand in hand with my belief that poetry is a form of coaxing the heart of language out of hiding places and beating like a drum in public spaces so that we all may feel the fall force and vigor of its romance. To transport them from the black and white world to the wonderful world of color as Walt Disney did on television, to challenge diamond miners to become jewelers, and mines to become treasure chests.
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