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" A nervous splendor : "
by Frederic Morton.
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BL
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891983
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| Main Entry
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Morton, Frederic.
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| Title & Author
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A nervous splendor : : Vienna, 1888/1889 /\ by Frederic Morton.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Little, Brown,, ©1979.
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x, 340 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0316585327
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: 9780316585323
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"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-329) and index.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Franz Joseph, I,1830-1916.
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Rudolph,1788-1831.
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Franz Joseph, I,1830-1916.
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Rudolph,1788-1831
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Intellectual life.
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Manners and customs.
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Austria, History, 1867-1918.
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Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life, 19th century.
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Vienna (Austria), Social life and customs.
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Austria, Vienna.
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Austria.
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| Dewey Classification
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943.6/13
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DB851.M6
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