As one ascends the stair the rickety banister sticks to one's fingers, and the walls on either side ooze. Her book describes parts of the Innere Stadt or city center as "dark, dirty and gloomy" and of the Jewish quarter she wrote: "The interiors of the houses are unspeakably squalid.
Maria Hornor Lansdale's once-indispensable guide of 1902 draws a portrait of the Hapsburg capital that is at once grubbier and more dynamic than anything suggested in our modern guidebooks. In those days it was not marketed at all. The Vienna of the early twentieth century was not marketed in this way. In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars.Vienna is described over-described as a city of paradox but for those who do not know this or have never been there, it may be pictured as a capriccio drawn from the flat sound bites of the Austrian Tourist Board, a place defined by its rich cream cakes, Mozart mugs and T-shirts, New Year's waltzes, grand, bestatued buildings, wide streets, old fur-coated women, electric trams, and Lipizzaner stallions. Three of his sons committed suicide Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist (using only his left hand), while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. The domineering paternal influence of Karl Wittgenstein left his eight children fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension.
Book excerpt: The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Book Synopsis The House of Wittgenstein by : Alexander Waughĭownload or read book The House of Wittgenstein written by Alexander Waugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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