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A Scandal in KönigsbergA Times Best Book of the Year 2025 A remarkable micro history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring 'It takes a confident historian to write a short book the story is distilled to its powerful essence; he knows precisely what's important This small book is many things, but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade preachers who understood women and love' Gerard de Groot, The Times Now part of the Russian Baltic
A Times Best Book of the Year 2025 A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring 'It takes a confident historian to write a short book... the story is distilled to its powerful essence; he knows precisely what's important... This small book is many things, but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade preachers who understood women and love' - Gerard de Groot, The Times Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of Königsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant. But in the late 1830s, just for a short while, it became famous for all the wrong reasons. Christopher Clark's brilliant new book is the result of many years of fascination with this strange case. Sensational accusations were bandied about, implying that beneath the town's somnolent surface there were dark erotic currents and wrenching betrayals of trust. For the Prussian authorities this was just the sort of moral collapse they feared most. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, which had unsettled a generation, every lapse could be seen as the harbinger of new storms. A Scandal in Königsberg beautifully brings to life a time and a place that we would now situate in the tranquil 'Biedermeier' years between the seismic upheavals of the 1810s and 1840s. But there is a timeless quality to this small vortex of turbulence, in which spiritual hunger, vanity, professional rivalry, sexual incontinence, naivety and sheer human waywardness threatened to tear a city apart.
| EAN: | 9780241767887 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 04.09.2025 |
| Autoren: | Clark, Christopher |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 240 |
| Themenüberschrift: | HISTORY / Europe / Germany |
| Keyword: | napoleon; bismarck; history book; napoleonic wars; history gifts for men; non fiction books for adults; frederick the great; history of europe; european history; history of germany |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Kaliningrad~Königsberg - Kaliningrad |
| Fachkategorie: | Europäische Geschichte |
| Imprint-Titels: | Allen Lane |
| Länge: | 240 mm |
| Breite: | 156 mm |
| Höhe: | 28 mm |
| Gewicht: | 500 gr |
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