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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

Paperback • 1980 • English

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

By Frederic Morton

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About the book

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 wit...Show more

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ISBN

9780140056679

Publisher

PENGUIN BOOKS

Published year

1980

Language

English

Original title

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

Format

Paperback

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