Title: An Amazing Cast of Characters
Product review: Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendor is a wonderfully entertaining read about Vienna in 1888/89. It ends with the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf but before that event this book of a city captures the personalities of such people as Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitler, Gustav Mahler and Theodor Herzl. It was an amazing time in this city and the author brings together all of these highs and lows of politics, art, culture, and society into a delightful tapestry. The reader truly gets a feel for this city and these people and part of the joy, for the reader, is knowing what the future will hold for many of these characters, such as the struggling Freud. This is not a work of anaylitical history. One does not understand why this time and this city but the reader can sit back and enjoy the ride through this slice of history.
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