EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Road to Mayerling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Barkeley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 9781258803421
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Road to Mayerling written by Richard Barkeley and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Mayerling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Barkeley
  • Publisher : London : Macmillan
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Road to Mayerling written by Richard Barkeley and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1958 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rudolf (21 August 1858? 30 January 1889), Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, was the son and heir-apparent of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his wife and Empress-Queen consort, Elisabeth. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines."--Wikipedia.

Book Rudolf  Crown Prince and Rebel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brigitte Hamann
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781433110801
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rudolf Crown Prince and Rebel written by Brigitte Hamann and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of Brigitte Hamann's study of Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria.

Book A Habsburg Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Márffy-Mantuano Hare Countess of Listowel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book A Habsburg Tragedy written by Judith Márffy-Mantuano Hare Countess of Listowel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carl Menger s Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria

Download or read book Carl Menger s Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria written by Carl Menger and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be of interest on a number of different levels. Most simply, it is a fascinating historical record of a pedagogical experience. . . . the Notebooks present the historian of economic thought, and those interested in the Austrian school in particular, with a number of intriguing, even frustrating puzzles. Peter Lewin, History of Economic Ideas . . . in all this volume provides a useful addition to our understanding of Carl Menger. The translation is very readable and the index is good. The Streisslers are to be commended for performing a real service to the scholarly community in editing and publishing this book. Karen I. Vaughn, Journal of the History of Economic Thought In 1876, Carl Menger, then a young professor at the University of Vienna, was asked to teach the principles of political economy to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, the 17 year old only son of Emperor Francis Joseph, who was to die tragically before he could inherit the throne. Rudolf s recently discovered Notebooks of these lectures, corrected by Menger, are a fascinating record of what the founder of the Austrian marginalist school thought worth teaching to the heir presumptive of a great power. Without referring to his own theories, Menger delivered a course on the economics of Adam Smith as presented in the mainstream German textbooks of the time in such a way that the Notebooks can be viewed as a key document on classical economic liberalism, pure and unadulterated. They cast new light on Menger s own theoretical discoveries, his view of government and his interpretation of classical economics. In this important volume Rudolf s Notebooks are published for the first time both in German and an English translation. The editor s detailed introduction provides the historical and intellectual background to the Notebooks as well as a thorough analysis of classical economics and its treatment by Menger. The text is fully annotated in German and English with its surprising sources traced passage by passage.

Book Royal Rebel

Download or read book Royal Rebel written by John T. Salvendy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully documented psycho-biography of the last Crown Prince of the Habsburg monarchy. Drawing mostly from first hand reports, Salvendy follows Crown Prince Rudolf from infancy to his suicide at the age of thirty. Exploring his childhood, adolescence, family and social relationships, his military, political, scholarly and journalistic career, his physical and emotional illnesses, along with the reasons leading to his self-destruction, the author sheds considerable new light on the personality of this unfortunate Habsburg.

Book Twilight of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg King
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2017-11-14
  • ISBN : 1250083036
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Twilight of Empire written by Greg King and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that locked room remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Drawing interviews with members of the Habsburg family and archival sources in Vienna, Greg King and Penny Wilson reconstruct this historical mystery, laying out evidence and information long ignored that conclusively refutes the romantic myth and the conspiracy stories.

Book Love and Death in Vienna

Download or read book Love and Death in Vienna written by Bunny Paine-Clemes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's been her obsession throughout her young life. Yet to seventeen-year-old Marie Vetsera, he i smore than that - he is her destiny. But Crown Prince Rudolf of Austro-Hungary, heir to the throne, a man of the world, much older than Marie and disease-ravaged from his indiscriminate liasons, moves in the upper circles of society to which she, of minor aristocracy, can barely aspire. Through sheer stubbornness, however and maybe a touch of the spoiled child who has always got everything she wanted, the girl succeeds in making a fateful meeting with him happen; an encounter that leads to a passionate not-so-secret affair, one marked, one marked, on her side at least, by total adoration. But all is not right in the world. There is a darker side to Rudolf's life, in which he ultimately sees only one way out.

Book A Habsburg Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Márffy-Mantuano Hare Countess of Listowel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book A Habsburg Tragedy written by Judith Márffy-Mantuano Hare Countess of Listowel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crown Prince Rudolf

Download or read book The Crown Prince Rudolf written by Enrique Lardé and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Nervous Splendor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederic Morton
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1980-10-30
  • ISBN : 014005667X
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book A Nervous Splendor written by Frederic Morton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1980-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist A "riveting" (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empire On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight 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. Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling 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." 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 La Ronde was 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.

Book A Habsburg Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Listowel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780880291057
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book A Habsburg Tragedy written by Judith Listowel and published by . This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime at Mayerling

Download or read book Crime at Mayerling written by Georg Markus and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, scientists and historians had been trying to solve the mystery of what had happened at Mayerling. An Austrian "Mayerling buff" felt compelled to reach an explanation in his own way: he secretly opened the grave of Baroness Vetsera at night, stole the coffin with her remains, and had them examined by forensic physicians and other specialists.

Book The Accidental Empress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Pataki
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-02-17
  • ISBN : 147679023X
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book The Accidental Empress written by Allison Pataki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of Sisi, the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph—perfect for fans of the Netflix series The Empress! The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma: she has inadvertently fallen for and won the heart of her sister’s groom. Franz Joseph reneges on his earlier proposal and declares his intention to marry Sisi instead. Thrust onto the throne of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court, Sisi upsets political and familial loyalties in her quest to win, and keep, the love of her emperor, her people, and of the world. With Pataki’s rich period detail and cast of complex, bewitching characters, The Accidental Empress offers “another absolutely compelling story” (Mary Higgins Clark) with this glimpse into one of history’s most intriguing royal families, shedding new light on the glittering Hapsburg Empire and its most mesmerizing, most beloved “Fairy Queen.”

Book Twilight of the Habsburgs

Download or read book Twilight of the Habsburgs written by Alan Palmer and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1997-02-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.

Book My Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book My Past written by Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernism  Representations of National Culture

Download or read book Modernism Representations of National Culture written by Ahmet Ersoy and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures, from the different ideological approaches and finessing projects of how to create the modern state liberal, conservative, socialist and others to the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.