Vienna


The World of Yesterday
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
Sebastian
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Third Man
Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914
Dream Story
The Fig Eater
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
The Little Book
A Death in Vienna (Liebermann Papers, #1)
Wittgenstein's Vienna
The Man Without Qualities
Der Falsche Held by Mart Schreiber
Mart Schreiber Books
1 book — 1 voter

The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigDream Story by Arthur SchnitzlerThe Third Man by Graham GreeneA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Vienna/Wien
257 books — 114 voters
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe World of Yesterday by Stefan ZweigThunder at Twilight by Frederic MortonA Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton
Austro-Hungarian Empire
56 books — 54 voters

The Murder of Professor Schlick by David EdmondsThe Crossroads of Civilization by Angus RobertsonAsperger's Children by Edith ShefferSaving Freud by Andrew NagorskiMortal Secrets by Frank Tallis
Vienna: History of Ideas
21 books — 5 voters
Sex with the Queen by Eleanor HermanSex with Kings by Eleanor HermanWhat Doesn't Kill You by Aimee HixMurder with Peacocks by Donna AndrewsThe Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
Fairfax County Authors
15 books — 4 voters

Deirdre Chapman
When they watched The Third Man, which was often, too often in Charlotte's opinion, her mother would pause on the two graveyard scenes, the first when the man who was not Harry Lime was disinterred, the second where the real Harry Lime took his place. "That's our grave," she would say. "Or pretty damn close to it. ...more
Deirdre Chapman, Badlands

Joseph Roth
An indescribable sadness emanated from the white splendour of the staircase and balustrade; the blood-red, now almost black splendour of the carpets. The huge palms in their huge pots looked like they had recently arrived from the cemetery. Their dark green leaves also looked blackish, like wizened, perished weapons from olden days.
Joseph Roth, The Tale of the 1002nd Night

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