The Folio Society, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Slipcased. Illustrator: Various. Preface by author, list of illustrations, Bibliography (limited to primary sources) and index, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and reproductions of drawings from contemporary sources. Illustrated end pages, being a part reproduction of the painting by Wilhelm Gause "Franz Joseph I at the Vienna State Ball". Rose coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic slip case Â– showing various personalities of Vienna at that period of time. These pages tell the story of Austria's Crown Prince Rudolf and his city in the 10 months before and after the double killing / suicide on January 30, 1889, where Crown Prince Rudolf shot his teenage mistress and hours later shot himself. The author evokes connections between Rudolf, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Theodore Herzl among others, who found frustration at the end of the 19th century. Minor rubbing of the book corners. A little rubbing of the edges of the slip case. Size: 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. X, 340 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Royalty; Austria; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0316585327. ISBN/EAN: 9780316585323. Inventory No: 0289701. . 9780316585323

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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 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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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0289701
Title: A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889
Author: Morton, Frederic
Illustrator: Various
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Slipcased
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316585327
ISBN 13: 9780316585323
Publisher: The Folio Society
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2006
Keywords: BZDB2 VIENNA AUSTRIA HISTORY HUNGARY History; Royalty; Austria; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. Various Unbranded ISBN: 0316585327 EAN: 9780316585323 Morton, Frederic A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889
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