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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
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Binding: Paperback
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Label: Trafalgar Square
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 30, 1980
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Studio: Trafalgar Square
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Rating:  - Genius--and evil--abounded in Vienna
A royal mess, more like it. But an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the period between 1865-1914 and why it was the most intellectually fruitful time in history yet the root of so many wrong ideas and evil events of the 20th century.
Genius abounded in Vienna--Freud, Mahler, Klimt, Brahms, Strauss--yet so did a proto-anti-Semitism that planted a seed in the minds of the Hitler family, parents of little Adolf born in Austria in 1889. Royalty ruled the "united" Austrian ... Read More
Rating: - A Splendid Memory
A marvellous, exciting and extremely well written summary of a major and influential time in Western history.
Rating: - Hypnotic Portrayal
Vienna poised at the end of the 19th century. A striking mix of political ferment, intellectual creativity, gaiety and despair. Resident are an astonishing collection of people whose work would later touch not only Vienna, but resound world-wide: Freud in psychiatry, Mahler in music, Hertzl with the Zionist movement and Klimt in art. And at the center of political and social life of the city is its bright hope for the coming new century - Crown Prince Rudolf. Through 1888 the pace in the city builds ... Read More
Rating:  - Time travel does exist...
...and it takes the form of Frederic Morton's "A Nervous Splendor." Morton takes the reader on a trip through a long-vanished Vienna -- the Carnival season and the drudgery of day-to-day life in the city's slums; the glory of sun-splashed and colorful parades and the spiritual desperation manifested in a municipal epidemic of suicides; the stullifying atmosphere of the Habsburg court and the creativity of the intellectual/artistic community.
The book is a snapshot of a year in the life of an imperial ... Read More
Rating: - An engrossing, enticing snapshot
The history of Austria from 1848 to about 1945 is an almost endlessly fascinating topic. As Frederic Morton makes clear, many of the strains that wove together to create the modern world -- in science, medicine, politics, and art -- have their roots in this time and place. In choosing just a few months in the period 1888-1889, Morton isolates a time when the cracks in the Habsburg edifice are beginning to show. It's a fascinating portrait that, in the clichéd reviewer's phrase, reads like a novel.
Morton's ... Read More
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