Лучшие книги Фредерика Мортона

Книга Фредерика Мортона - это увлекательная история клана могущественных финансистов. Их фамилия давно стала символом богатства, успеха и процветания. Члены этого семейства внесли огромный вклад в культуру и прославили свои имена на ниве благотворительности. В книге присутствует множество забавных, трагических и поучительных историй, в которых участвуют колоритнейшие персонажи: особы королевской крови, государственные мужи, поэты, художники.

Recreates an opulent and ominous period in Vienna's history, showing ways in which public events affected the hearts and minds of the Viennese people and the great artists and thinkers who lived among them

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century.

It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more.

With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.