The Dream King: Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly detailed work of royal biography, The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria chronicles the extraordinary and tragic life of one of history's most enigmatic monarchs, the nineteenth-century Bavarian king whose obsessive vision gave the world the fairy-tale castles of Neuschwanstein and Linderhof. Wilfrid Blunt presents Ludwig's reign not merely as a political story but as a psychological portrait of a man increasingly at odds with the demands of statecraft, retreating ever deeper into a world of Wagnerian fantasy and architectural grandeur. Written with elegant, literary authority, the narrative illuminates the tension between Ludwig's soaring romantic imagination and the cold machinations of the Bavarian government that ultimately declared him insane and deposed him in 1886. Blunt draws on a wealth of historical detail to illustrate how Ludwig's patronage of Richard Wagner and his monumental building projects left an indelible mark on European culture, even as they drained the royal treasury. The result is a compelling and sympathetic account of a king who was, by turns, visionary and vulnerable, a ruler who seemed to belong more to legend than to history.
Author: Wilfrid Blunt
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly detailed work of royal biography, The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria chronicles the extraordinary and tragic life of one of history's most enigmatic monarchs, the nineteenth-century Bavarian king whose obsessive vision gave the world the fairy-tale castles of Neuschwanstein and Linderhof. Wilfrid Blunt presents Ludwig's reign not merely as a political story but as a psychological portrait of a man increasingly at odds with the demands of statecraft, retreating ever deeper into a world of Wagnerian fantasy and architectural grandeur. Written with elegant, literary authority, the narrative illuminates the tension between Ludwig's soaring romantic imagination and the cold machinations of the Bavarian government that ultimately declared him insane and deposed him in 1886. Blunt draws on a wealth of historical detail to illustrate how Ludwig's patronage of Richard Wagner and his monumental building projects left an indelible mark on European culture, even as they drained the royal treasury. The result is a compelling and sympathetic account of a king who was, by turns, visionary and vulnerable, a ruler who seemed to belong more to legend than to history.