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Karl Tschuppiks glorioser Familienroman entführt uns in die Zeit der k. und k. Monarchie, beginnend Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts, endend am Vortag des Ersten Weltkriegs. Einer der schönsten Romane über das Leben und die Gesellschaft zu Zeiten Kaiser Franz Josephs - wiederentdeckt! Die Familie Adorno stammt aus einem Patriziergeschlecht, dessen Ahnherr in den Dienst Maria Theresias trat und dem Habsburgerstaat eine Anzahl treuer Untertanen schenkte. Max, sein jüngster Spross, Sohn einer lebenslustigen Mutter, die ihren Gatten mit einer hochgestellten Person aus dem Kaiserhaus betrügt und der Ehre wegen ihre Familie verlassen muss, lebt halb verwaist im strengen Wiener Vaterhaus. Der V...
"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, Slate This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.
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