A Nervous Splendour - Folio Society edition

A Nervous Splendour

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A Nervous Splendour - Folio Society edition
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A Nervous Splendour

Frederic Morton

Edition year 2006
Binding Silk
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 236
Dimensions 25 × 16 cm

Edition details

A Nervous Splendour : Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton. 26 contemporary photographs and paintings bound in. Map of Vienna. Colour picture endpapers. Bound in blocked red moire silk with gilt spine title. Dark red slipcase with two tone pictorial wrap-around. 236pp. 25x16cm.

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Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendour portrays Vienna during the dramatic year of 1888-89, when the Habsburg Empire appeared culturally brilliant yet politically fragile. The book examines court life, intellectual culture and the tragedy surrounding Crown Prince Rudolf at Mayerling. It captures the tension between elegance and anxiety in the final decades of imperial Vienna.

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