The reluctant empress /
She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality, her r...
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | Greek English German |
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Berlin :
Ullstein,
1996.
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| Résumé: | She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality, her refusals to conform, escaping to a life of her own, filled with literature, ideas and the new political passions of the age.
This edition is a translation into English from the original German by Ruth Hein. |
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| Description matérielle: | xii, 410 p. [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 3-548-35479-3 |