A Nervous Splendor

Name: A Nervous Splendor
Author: Frederic Morton

by Frederic Morton

Historical account of Vienna's cultural golden age in the 1880s

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Frederic Morton

Frederic Morton was an Austrian-born American writer whose The Rothschilds and A Nervous Splendor blended historical narrative with novelistic technique. His memoir Thunder at Twilight about 1913 Vienna is his most celebrated work.

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