{"product_id":"2026200007900-secondhand-a-nervous-splendour-vienna-1888-1889","title":"A Nervous Splendour: Vienna 1888-1889","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Slipcase: Good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of narrative history, A Nervous Splendour chronicles the final days of January 1889 in Vienna, weaving together the city's glittering imperial life with the shocking tragedy at Mayerling, where Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his young mistress, Mary Vetsera, were found dead in an apparent suicide pact. Frederic Morton reconstructs this pivotal moment with novelistic precision, drawing on diaries, letters, and police records to illuminate the private anguishes and public spectacles unfolding simultaneously across the Habsburg capital. The tone is at once elegiac and electric, capturing a city poised on the edge of an era — waltzing through opera premieres and aristocratic balls even as its imperial dynasty trembled. Morton illustrates how the death of Rudolf was not merely a royal scandal but a premonition of the collapse of an entire world order, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself. The result is a richly atmospheric portrait of a civilization in brilliant, anxious decline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48826033438939,"sku":"2026200007900-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/01e51e69-eaca-4584-80c5-acf7f8fee272.png?v=1780311281","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007900-secondhand-a-nervous-splendour-vienna-1888-1889","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}