The Reluctant Empress - A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria

She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality, her refusals to conform, escaping to a life of her own, filled with literature, ideas and the new political passions of the age.

Summary

She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality, her refusals to conform, escaping to a life of her own, filled with literature, ideas and the new political passions of the age.

Product details

• Authors: Brigitte Hamann
• Publisher: Ullstein TB
• Original title: Elisabeth, Kaiserin wider Willen
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9783548354798
• ISBN: 978-3-548-35479-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 35 mm x 200 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Illustrations: 49 figs. on plates.
• Series: Ullstein Taschenbuch
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Geschichte, Verstehen, Österreich, Europäische Geschichte, Biografie, Österreich-Ungarn, Biographie, entdecken, HISTORY / Europe / General, Elisabeth