{"product_id":"a-nervous-splendor-by-frederic-morton-signed-copies-while-supplies-last","title":"A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Frederic Morton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A remarkable and unusual slice of history.”—Robert Kirsch, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“As lush, beguiling, and charming as an emperor’s waltz”—\u003cem\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederic Morton, author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eRothschilds\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books, 1980\u003cbr\u003e5 x 0.6 x 7.1 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780140056679\u003cbr\u003eAustrian History\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263504226,"sku":"9780140056679","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/A-Nervous-Splendor-Vienna-1888-1889_Frederic-Morton.jpg?v=1591302832","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/a-nervous-splendor-by-frederic-morton-signed-copies-while-supplies-last","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}