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All for Loveby Dan JacobsonISBN 0805081038 (0-8050-8103-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All for Love'Book summary:[via]A brilliant reconstruction of the operatic--and catastrophic--romance of a Hapsburg princess and a lowly cavalryman
It was a great European scandal: she was the wife of a prince, the daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians, and a familiar figure in the court of the aged emperor Franz Joseph. Her lover was Second Lieutenant Géza Mattachich. Ten years younger than the princess, a dashing figure in his fitted tunic and shiny boots, he was an undistinguished subaltern of dubious origin and extravagant ambition. Ahead of them both lay assignations, adultery, flight, the squandering of a fortune (not his; not hers either, as things worked out), a duel, imprisonment, bankruptcy, madness. And, as well, a genuine heroine--in the form of canteen worker Maria Stöger--who was no less ready than the princess and her soldier to risk all for love.With sparkling, satirical prose, All for Love moves from one end of pre-World War I Europe to the other. Shuttling between historical fact and fiction, between their time and ours, it evokes a world in which propriety conceals what is predatory, greedy, and corrupt. Long forgotten, Louise and Mattachich have been resurrected and placed, along with their few friends and many enemies, at the center of a drama that is both extravagant and profound.More editions of All for Love:
Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt Kokoschka Schiele and Their Contemporariesby Peter VergoISBN 0714829676 (0-7148-2967-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt Kokoschka Schiele and Their Contemporaries'Book summary:The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked a conservative public; but their successive exhibitions, their magazine "Ver Sacrum", and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. This book traces the course of this development, of the Wiener Werkstatte that followed, and the individual works of the artists concerned. Klimt, Olbrich, Loos and Hoffmann in architecture and applied arts. In other fields Mahler, Freud and Schnitzler were influencing the avant-garde. Peter Vergo quotes extensively from the writings of contemporary reviewers, critics and the artists themselves. He has eye-witness accounts of the exhibitions, the opening of the Secession building, the work in progress on the Palais Stoclet and Kabarett Fledermaus. The result is a documentary study of the successes and failures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement which is still admired today. [via]
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The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History 1848-1938by William M. JohnstonISBN 0520049551 (0-520-04955-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Diaries 1898-1902by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Antony Beaumont, Susanne Rode-BreymannISBN 0801486645 (0-8014-8664-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diaries 1898-1902'Book summary:Alma Mahler was born in Vienna in 1879. As the daughter of the landscape painter Emile Schindler, she was afforded easy entrance into the cultural life of the city; it seems that by the time these diaries open there was no part of the artistic, musical, literary, and theatrical life in fin-de-siècle Vienna with which Alma was not intimately connected. Before marrying the composer Gustav Mahler in 1902, Alma had already been a pupil and lover of Zemlinsky, Klimt, and Burckhard. (And after Mahler died she married Walter Gropius, had an affair with Oskar Kokoschka, and then married Franz Werfel.) In combining the naiveté of a teenager on the cusp of womanhood with a wonderfully frank account of a remarkable time and place, Alma has left a priceless and unique record of personal and artistic history. The editor and translator Antony Beaumont rightly comments that reading the diaries is like "raising a curtain, behind which stands the Vienna of 1900 in all its majesty. So close that you can almost reach out and touch it". --Nick Wroe [via]
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Dk Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides Viennaby Dk Travel Writers, Irene ZoechISBN 0789491893 (0-7894-9189-3)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dk Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides Vienna'Book summary:Take the work out of planning any trip with DK's Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides. Branded with DK's trusted and familiar "Eyewitness" style, these compact guides make finding the best every destination has to offer easier than ever before! Perfect for both business travel and vacations, whether you're looking for the finest cuisine or the least expensive places to eat, the most luxurious hotels or the best deals on places to stay, the best family destination or the hottest nightspot, Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides provide current, useful information based on the insight of local experts to find the best of everything at each destination. [via]
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides ViennaISBN 0789495759 (0-7894-9575-9)
Softcover, Dk Pub
Find This BookBook summary:Includes: Stephansdom Quarter, Hofburg Quarter, Schottenring, Alsergrund, Town Hall, the Museum Quarter, Opera, Naschmarkt, and the Belvedere Quarter.- [via]
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The Drawing of the Darkby Tim PowersISBN 0345430816 (0-345-43081-6)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Dark'Book summary:Del Rey's Impact line introduces a list of titles that have "slipped through the cracks and become buried treasure." The re-release of Tim Powers's The Drawing of the Dark (first published in 1979) is indeed worthy of the imprint. It was his third novel and first foray into the fantasy genre.
It is the year 1529 and Brian Duffy, a soldier of fortune, finds himself in Venice. A late-night confrontation with three brothers over a matter of honor convinces Brian to find greener pastures. After a chance meeting with an old monk named Aurelainus, Brian finds himself hired on to be the bouncer at the famous Herzwesten brewery and inn (formerly a monastery) located in Vienna. During Brian's voyage from Venice to Vienna, he crosses the Dolomite Mountains, only to meet assassins who attack him. Dwarves and creatures Brian knew only from mythology assist him in vanquishing his attackers.
The mythical Fisher King is a central character in The Drawing of the Dark, and cameos by the Roman god Bacchus, the Lady of the Lake, reincarnations of King Arthur and Sigmund from Norse mythology, Merlin, and hosts of soldiers, including Vikings and Swiss mercenaries, add to the otherworldly feel. The legendary heroes are allied against legions of soldiers from the Turkish Ottoman Empire under Suleiman and his wizard Ibrahim, who try to repeat the successes of their 1521 and 1526 invasions of eastern Europe by laying siege to Vienna. But just what is their objective? The city or the beer?
Tim Powers does a great job of tying the historical invasion of eastern Europe by the Turks to a rollicking, fun-filled fantasy, which offers its own reasons for the invasion and a wonderful cast of heroes that ultimately repel the invaders. This is a must-read for Tim Powers fans and for readers who have yet to delve into his rich, wonderful worlds. --Robert Gately [via]
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Dream Storyby Arthur Schnitzler, Otto P. SchinnererISBN 1931243484 (1-931243-48-4)
Softcover, Green Integer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Story'Book summary:novel, Austrian, tr Otto P Schinnerer [via]
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Egon Schiele: Eros and Passionby Egon Schiele, Klaus Albrecht Schroder, Albrecht SchroederISBN 379132229X (3-7913-2229-X)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion'Book summary:An exciting appraisal of Schiele's sensual paintings. No other artist in early modern art depicted the body so candidly as Schiele, whose uncompromising truthfulness in allegedly pornographic imagery caused him to be imprisoned briefly in 1912. [via]
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Egon Schiele: Eros And Passionby Klaus Albrecht SchroderISBN 3791336002 (3-7913-3600-2)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egon Schiele: Eros And Passion'Book summary:Examines the erotic work of the Expressionist artist within the perspective of history's shifting views concerning beauty, aesthetics and decency. [via]
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Egon Schiele's Portraitsby Alessandra CominiISBN 0520068696 (0-520-06869-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 847223746X (84-7223-746-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Embersby Sandor Marai, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375707425 (0-375-70742-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embers'Book summary:In Sándor Márai's Embers, two old men, once the best of friends, meet after a 41-year break in their relationship. They dine together, taking the same places at the table that they had assumed on the last meal they shared, then sit beside each other in front of a dying fire, one of them nearly silent, the other one, his host, slowly and deliberately tracing the course of their dead friendship. This sensitive, long-considered elaboration of one man's lifelong grievance is as gripping as any adventure story and explains why Márai's forgotten 1942 masterpiece is being compared with the work of Thomas Mann. In some ways, Márai's work is more modern than Mann's. His brevity, simplicity, and succinct, unadorned lyricism may call to mind Latin American novelists like Gabriel García Márquez, or even Italo Calvino. It is the tone of magical realism, although Márai's work is only magical in the sense that he completely engages his reader, spinning a web of words as his wounded central character describes his betrayal and abandonment at the hands of his closest friend. Even the setting, an old castle, evokes dark fairy tales.
The story of the rediscovery of Embers is as fascinating as the novel itself. A celebrated Hungarian novelist of the 1930s, Márai survived the war but was persecuted by the Communists after they came to power. His books were suppressed, even destroyed, and he was forced to flee his country in 1948. He died in San Diego in 1989, one year before the neglected Embers was finally reprinted in his native land. This reprint was discovered by the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso, and the subsequent editions have become international bestsellers. All of Márai's novels are now slated for American publication. --Regina Marler [via]
Eyes Wide Shutby Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 0446676322 (0-446-67632-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Fig Eaterby Jody ShieldsISBN 0316785261 (0-316-78526-1)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fig Eater'Book summary:Penzler Pick, May 2000: It is 1910 Vienna, and a woman's body has been found in the Volksgarten. She is Dora--Freud's famous patient. The Inspector (whose name we never learn) is painstakingly trying to put together the circumstances of her death with the help of the principles outlined in the 1901 book System der Kriminalistik, the first tome to attempt a psychological approach to understanding crime. The Inspector's wife, Erszébet, meanwhile, is drawn to this murder for reasons she doesn't understand and decides to investigate using her own methodology, derived from the Gypsy folklore she grew up with in Hungary.
What separates The Fig Eater from ordinary mystery fiction is the look it offers at detective work in the early 20th century, as the methods used moved from folklore and ignorance to the scientific. Photography of the era often resulted in the loss of fingers. Forensic methods so familiar to us now were unheard of, and the use of psychological profiling to capture killers was a young science unknown by most of the general populace.
Shields introduces the reader to Dora's family and acquaintances, giving depth to the characters only briefly discussed in Freud's case study of Dora. She takes liberties with the historical record (this is, after all, a novel) but creates a plausible scenario of what might have happened while depicting a brooding turn-of-the-century Vienna replete with gorgeous details of food, fashion, botany, and manners. The film rights have been optioned by Miramax, and if the author had her way, she says, it would star Liam Neeson and Judi Dench. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 0394744780 (0-394-74478-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture'Book summary:Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Paperback) by Carl E. Schorske. Vintage Books edition, January 1981. PAPERBACK 377 pages. [via]
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Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture: ISBN 0844671347 (0-8446-7134-7)
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Frommer's Vienna & The Danube Valleyby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0764524364 (0-7645-2436-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frommer's Vienna & the Danube Valley'Book summary:You'll never fall into tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
City of music, cafes, waltzes, parks, pastries, and baroque architecture, Vienna became a showplace city under the Hapsburgs and unlike many European capitals, managed to retain its landmarks through two world wars. Frommer's offers detailed, complete coverage of all the highlights. Rely on us for indepth reviews of attractions and museums, the best accommodations for every taste and budget, the lowdown on the dining and cafe scene, a complete shopper's guide, the best of the performing arts, and more including side trips to nearby Danube River towns and Lake Neusiedl resorts.
If you're combining your visit to Vienna with a trip to Prague or Budapest (both are just a short train ride away), check out some of Frommer's other helpful guides for your trip, such as Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic and Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary. For a book on more of Austria then "just" Vienna and the Danube Valley, see Frommer's Austria. [via]
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The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapestby Peter HanakISBN 0691009651 (0-691-00965-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest'Book summary:Cultural historians have long been intrigued with how such cultural treasures as impressionism, psychoanalysis, and the New School of Music could flourish in the depleted soils of fin-de-siècle Vienna--and, not very far behind, Budapest--at a time when the empire was exhausted and eroding. "Was this culture inspired by the 'slight rapture of death,'" asks cultural historian Péter Hanák, "or was the whole structure void of a foundation and its glitter nothing more than a mirage?" The period prior to the First World War was indeed a golden age, albeit wobbly.
The formal tone and well-organized presentation of these essays conceals a sprightly diversity of themes. What thread can possibly link the fin-de-siècle perception of death, popular letters of social grievance, and the worldwide success of the theatrical genre common to both cities--operetta? It is the author's concept of cultural history that provides the thread. Hanák's focus is not trained on cultural masterpieces, but on the "real world" of urban mass culture and the cultural products of peasants.
The theme of urbanization, dealing with all major areas of cultural history, opens the study. Chapter 2 looks at the development of prejudice in this Central European cauldron, analyzing anti-German and anti-Semitic images. The impact of politics on the cultures of both cities gives this work its title essay. Vienna would be characterized by the image of the garden; Budapest, with its factories and café culture, is characterized by the "workshop" conceit. The great upheavals of the century's end would be played out in a field of opposites.
The final chapter offers a unique subject of inquiry--the letters written by ordinary soldiers during the First World War allows Hanák to examine the social perceptions of the lower classes and chronicle the shift toward the culture's revolutionary mood.
This scholarly work, presenting as it does a specific historical moment, will appeal to the cultural historian eager to learn more about Hanák's themes presented through an original point of view. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 The World in Female Formby Gottfried FliedlISBN 3822802905 (3-8228-0290-5)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 The World in Female Form'Book summary:Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siecle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy, which Klimt (1862-1918) and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty, was constantly overshadowed by death, and death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his times. Particularly his drawings, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the erotic portrayal of women. Klimt saw the world "in female form." Author Gottfried Fliedl also discusses the Secession movement and Klimt's role within this important group of artists. [via]
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Gustav Klimt 1862-1918: The World in Female Formby Gustav Klimt, Gottfried Fliedl, Gottfried FliedtISBN 382287213X (3-8228-7213-X)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gustav Klimt 1862-1918: The World in Female Form'Book summary:These richly illustrated art books cover several centuries of great artists and their masterworks. From Rubens to Dali, each artist's life and times, influences, legacy, and style are explored in depth. Each book analyzes a particular painting with regard to the history surrounding it, the techniques used to create it, and the hidden details that make up the whole, providing a thorough look at each artist's career. Included is a bibliography, a chronological reading of principle works, a brief life history, and listings of public collections featuring each artist. [via]
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Henry James' Midnight Songby Carol De Chelli HillISBN 0393312291 (0-393-31229-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeshipby Brigitte Hamann, Thomas ThorntonISBN 0195140532 (0-19-514053-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 034540047X (0-345-40047-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafes of Vienna, Budapest, and Pragueby Rick Rodgers, Kelly BugdenISBN 0609604538 (0-609-60453-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Klimtby Gottfried FliedlISBN 3822829196 (3-8228-2919-6)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Klimt'Book summary:[via]GUSTAV KLIMT - THE WORLD "IN FEMALE FORM." GUSTAV KLIMT'S ART IS THROUGHLY FIN DE SIECLE. IT EXPRESSES THE APOCALYPTIC ATMOSPHERE OF VIENNA S UPPER MIDDLE-CLASS SOCIETY - A SOCIETY DEVOTED TO THE CULTIVATION OF AESTHETIC AWARENESS AND THE CULT OF PLEASURE. THE ECSTATIC JOY WHICH KLIMT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES FOUND - OR HOPED TO FIND - IN BEAUTY WAS CONSTANTLY OVERSHADOWED BY DEATH. AND DEATH THEREFORE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN KLIMT'S ART. KLIMT'S FAME, HOWEVER, RESTS ON HIS REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE GREATEST EROTIC PAINTERS AND GRAPHIC ARTISTS OF HIS TIMES. PARTICULARLY HIS DRAWINGS, WHICH HAVE BEEN WIDELY ADMIRED FOR THEIR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, ARE DOMINATED BY THE EROTIC PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN, KLIMT SAW THE WORLD "IN FEMALE FORM." GOTTFRIED FLIEDL ALSO DISCUSSES THE SECESSION MOVEMENT AND KLIMT'S ROLE WITHIN THIS GROUP OF ARTISTS. EXAMINING KLIMT'S WORK AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF HIS TIMES, HE GIVES AN APPRAISAL OF THE ARTIST WHILE AT THE SAME TIME RAISING THE CRITICAL ISSUES.More editions of Klimt:
La Pianista / The Pianistby Elfriede JelinekISBN 9879397355 (987-9397-35-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Lonely Planet Austriaby Mark HonanISBN 0864423284 (0-86442-328-4)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonely Planet Austria'Book summary:This guide features travel and accommodation options to suit a range of budgets. It also includes cultural and historical information. [via]
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Lonely Planet Viennaby Mark HonanISBN 1864501952 (1-86450-195-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications
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Lonely Planet Viennaby Neal Bedford, Jane Rawson, Richard NebeskyISBN 1741041996 (1-74104-199-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonely Planet Vienna'Book summary:Vienna is one of Europe's most famous cities, noted for its history and culture. This title offers a guide to the city and its attractions. [via]
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Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-De-Siecle Viennaby Jacques Le Rider, Rosemary MorrisISBN 0826406319 (0-8264-0631-9)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889by Frederic MortonISBN 014005667X (0-14-005667-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889'Book summary: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.[via]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 talentsand 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.
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The Piano Teacherby Elfriede JelinekISBN 1555840523 (1-55584-052-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.[via]
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.More editions of The Piano Teacher:
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The Piano Teacherby Joachim Neugroschel, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852427507 (1-85242-750-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising." [via]
Robert Musil and the Culture of Viennaby Hannah HickmanISBN 0812691563 (0-8126-9156-3)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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The Rough Guide to ViennaISBN 1858287251 (1-85828-725-1)
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The Rough Guide To Viennaby Rough Guides, Val HumphreysISBN 1843534118 (1-84353-411-8)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide To Vienna'Book summary:The Rough Guide to Vienna is the ultimate guide to Austrias dazzling capital city. This new edition includes a full-colour section showcasing Viennas highlights, from the magnificent gothic cathedral to the monumental imperial boulevards of the Ringstrasse. The following chapters give evocative accounts of all the sights, from the Hapsburg palaces to the cutting-edge galleries of the new Museums Quartier. For every district there are up-to-the-minute reviews of the citys best hotels, restaurants, bars and classic coffeehouses. Beyond the city, the guide gives lively accounts of day-trips to the spa town of Baden, the monastery at Klosterneuberg and elsewhere. Maps and plans accompany every chapter and the ''contexts'' section gives an informed commentary on Viennas history, musical heritage and contemporary culture. [via]
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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914by Peter GayISBN 0393323633 (0-393-32363-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914'Book summary:Prolific author Peter Gay describes the rise of the middle class in the 19th century through an unexpected lens: the life of Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler. Yet Gay's themes are much larger than the somewhat obscure Schnitzler: "If we may call [my book] a biography at all, it is one of a class," he writes. Schnitzler's Century necessarily focuses on the Victorians--a term often applied only to the British, but here extended to all of Europe and the United States--and Gay seeks to portray them in their complexity and diversity. "There are many people who think they have grasped the Victorian mentality when they have smiled at gushy keepsakes, maudlin poems, shy euphemisms, silences about matters that matter," he writes. In fact, "they lived with their eyes open." Gay has written a history of habits, with close attention paid to sexual ones. It is the sort of provocative book that the stereotypical Victorian would want to see removed from the storefront window--but also would want to peek at when nobody else was looking. --John Miller [via]
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Siegfriedby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0670032530 (0-670-03253-0)
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The Star of Kazanby Eva Ibbotson, Kevin HawkesISBN 0142405825 (0-14-240582-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Star of Kazan'Book summary:[via]After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
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The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.by Brian O'DohertyISBN 1900850672 (1-900850-67-2)
Softcover, Arcadia Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.'Book summary:In this mysterious and haunting novel of eighteenth-century Vienna, Brian O'Doherty takes the reader from the hushed clinic of the controversial physician Dr Franz Mesmer to the glittering and scheming Habsburg court of Maria Theresa of Austria. [via]
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914by Frederic MortonISBN 0306810212 (0-306-81021-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914'Book summary:Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Viennaand in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Josephand soon the bullet that killed the archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolisVienna on the brink of cataclysm.[via]More editions of Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914:
Turn-Of-The-Century Viennese Patterns and Designsby Koloman MoserISBN 048640269X (0-486-40269-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Viennaby Jonathan MoberlyISBN 3895082872 (3-89508-287-2)
Softcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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Viennaby Rolf Toman, Gerald Zugmann, Achim BednorzISBN 3829020449 (3-8290-2044-9)
Hardcover, Konemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vienna'Book summary:Austria's history as a destination for the arts began more than 25,000 years ago with the carving of the Wildendorf Venus and continued throughout the Roman, Gothic and Baroque periods. Today's Vienna is an amalgam of old and new with an abundant mix of museums, galleries, monuments and parks to delight any visitor. [via]
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Viennaby Stephen BrookISBN 1564586472 (1-56458-647-2)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vienna'Book summary:Over 500 full-color photographs taken specially for this guide. Unique cutaways and floorplans help you explore public buildings and landmarks - no need to purchase other guides. The Survival Guide shows you how to use local currency, public transportation, and telephones. Detailed and accurate Street Finder maps give you instant access to streets and districts. Hotel, restaurants, cafes and bars in all price ranges. [via]
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Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture & Designby Kirk Varnedoe, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0870706195 (0-87070-619-5)
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Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural Historyby Steven BellerISBN 0521407273 (0-521-40727-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Vienna: The Past in the Present A Historical Surveyby Lonnie Johnson, Inge LehneISBN 1572410183 (1-57241-018-3)
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Viennawalksby J. Sydney JonesISBN 0805023852 (0-8050-2385-2)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Viennawalks'Book summary:After a brief introduction, with practical information and advice on getting around Vienna and adapting to the city's culture and customs, this guide presents four walks intended for tourists who want to learn as they travel, and not simply look. The walks all approach the city from different perspectives - the Vienna of the Habsburg monarchy, of Beethoven and of Freud. There is also a supplementary section with details of select restaurants, hotels, shops and museums. [via]
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Wittgenstein's Viennaby A. JanikISBN 0671217259 (0-671-21725-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein's Vienna'Book summary:The life and culture of Hapsburg, Vienna before World War I--the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. [via]
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Wittgenstein's Viennaby Stephen Toulmin, A. JanikISBN 1566631327 (1-56663-132-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein's Vienna'Book summary:This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siècle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgensteins native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems&.This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful. New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0679603069 (0-679-60306-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The World of Yesterdayby Stefan ZweigISBN 1406735744 (1-4067-3574-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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Hitlers Wien: Lehrjahre Eines Diktatorsby Brigitte HamannISBN 3492035981 (3-492-03598-1)
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Die Klavierspielerin: Romanby Elfriede JelinekISBN 3498033166 (3-498-03316-6)
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Die Strudlhofstiege, Oder, Melzer Und Die Tiefe Der Jahre: Romanby Heimito Von DodererISBN 3423012544 (3-423-01254-4)
Hardcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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Guias Visuales Peugeot: VienaISBN 0789462176 (0-7894-6217-6)
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El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 8472232271 (84-7223-227-1)
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