Recommendations from our site
“A writer who captures the moods, the atmosphere of Vienna at different periods brilliantly is Ilsa Barea who wrote a book called Vienna: Legend and Reality published in 1921. It is a kind of love-hatred letter to the city that she had had to flee and captures the feelings of nostalgia tinged with melancholy. She evokes the Baroque city and even more the Biedermeier age (after the Napoleonic war, 1815-1848) very vividly.” Read more...
Nicholas Parsons, Historian
Our most recommended books
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig & Anthea Bell (translator) -
Language, Truth and Logic
by AJ Ayer -
After War
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Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes
by Friedrich Torberg & Maria Poglitsch Bauer (translator) -
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
by Karl Sigmund -
The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent
by John Stoye
