The house of Wittgenstein: a family at war

by Waugh, Alexander

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The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons comm…

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  • Full title :The house of Wittgenstein : a family at war / Alexander Waugh.

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The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons committed suicide; Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist, using only his left hand and playing compositions commissioned from Ravel and Prokofiev; while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, portraits)

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1256245083
  • LC Classification:CT917.W5
  • Dewey Decimal:943.61304410922

Subjects

Austria -- Vienna Biographies Eccentrics and eccentricities Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biogra… Intellectual life Intellectuals Intellectuals -- Biography. -- Austria Intellectuels -- Biographies. -- Autric… Intellektuella -- Österrike Rich people Rich people -- Biography. -- Austria Riches -- Biographies. -- Autriche Rika -- Österrike Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -… Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -… Wien -- intellektuellt liv -- 1800-talet Wittgenstein (Famille) Wittgenstein family Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul

Writers

Waugh, Alexander

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