A nervous splendor : Vienna, 1888/1889 / by Frederic Morton.
TITLE:
A nervous splendor : Vienna, 1888/1889 / by Frederic Morton.
Publication Date:
1979
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
x, 340 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. 320-329.
Summary:
On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf shot and killed his teenage mistress and then himself in a suicide pact. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still. Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling THE 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." Other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince--moved through his Vienna. Among them were a 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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316585323
General Note:
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Includes index.
