{"product_id":"2026200007420-secondhand-the-dream-king-ludwig-ii-of-bavaria","title":"The Dream King: Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887833362651,"sku":"2026200007420-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1f00ffa2-88cd-4ad0-9842-be77cad9d1f6.png?v=1781746787","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007420-secondhand-the-dream-king-ludwig-ii-of-bavaria","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}