β Scribed by Sharratt, Mary
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era
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Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees? In Ecstasy , Mary Sharratt finally gives one of the most controversial and complex women of her time the center stage.
Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind**,** young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A brand-new era of possibility for women is dawning and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands...
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βEcstasyβ is an asseblage of poems and short stories.Poems included touch on a drove of themes. Short stories swirl around the lives of Abida, Fatimah, Amina, and Anushe: ordinary girls with their extraordinary ordeals.