Ebook: A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
- Tags: Austria--Princes and princesses, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists Architects Photographers, Intellectual life, Rudolf--Crown Prince of Austria--1858-1889--Death and burial, Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life, History, Electronic books, Rudolph -- Erzherzog von Österreich -- 1788-1831, Franz Joseph -- I -- Emperor of Austria -- 1830-1916, Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century, Austria -- History -- 1867-1918, Austria -- Princes and princesses -- Biography, Rudolf -- Crown Prince of
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Diversion Books
- City: Austria;Vienna;Newburyport;Vienna (Austria
- Language: English
- epub
A National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling Frederic Morton ""Frederic Morton's A NERVOUS SPLENDOR is my favorite book about Vienna.""--John Irving 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.
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