All for Love
Published on 5. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-14-101742-6 (ISBN)
Description
She was a princess, daughter of perhaps the most hated king in Europe. He was just a lowly hussar. Their love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna was to scandalize a continent. The story of Princess Louise of Belgium and Geza Mattachich, stepson of a minor Croatian count, began with no more than an exchanged glance in a park. Yet the princess and her soldier, divided by wealth and status, pursued their devotion to one another through scandal, ruin, madness and imprisonment. Dan Jacobson's brilliant imagining of this forgotten episode of the Hapsburg court brings to life one of the century's great love stories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-101742-6 (9780141017426)
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Person
Dan Jacobson has written extensively for the Guardian, the TLS, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His novels, short stories, critical works and autobiographical essays have won him several major literary prizes, including the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the H.H.Wingate Award and the J.R.Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He lives and works in London.