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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

7 best books like A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 (Frederic Morton): 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World, The World of Yesterday, The Reluctant Empress, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend, Defying Hitler

1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
AuthorFrank McLynn
ISBN0802142281
If not for the events of 1759, the entire history of the world would have been different. Called the "Year of Victories," 1759 was the fourth year of the Seven Years, or the French-and-Indian War and defeat of the French paved the way for the global hegemony of the English language. Guiding us through England's...
The World of Yesterday
AuthorStefan Zweig
ISBN0803252242
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
The Reluctant Empress
AuthorBrigitte Hamann
ISBN3548354793
She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality,...
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
AuthorAdam Zamoyski
ISBN0060775181
In the wake of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, the French emperor's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. While the Treaty of Paris that followed Napoleon's exile in 1814 put an end to a quarter century...
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
AuthorAlexander Waugh
ISBN0385520603
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.

The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend
AuthorElias Canetti
ISBN3596220831
Αυτός ο συγγραφέας έχει έναν πολύ ιδιαίτερο τρόπο να διηγείται τη ζωή του. Θα ήθελα να μάθαινα περισσότερα για τη μέθοδό του. Δεν είναι απλώς ξερές αναμνήσεις,...
Defying Hitler
AuthorSebastian Haffner
ISBN0312421133
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of...
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