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Waugh, Alexander
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The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
β Scribed by Wittgenstein family.;Waugh, Alexander
- Book ID
- 100679998
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 673 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0385526725
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β¦ Synopsis
The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the upheaval of two world wars. Of the eight children, three committed suicide; Paul lost an arm in the war and yet stubbornly pursued a musical career; and Ludwig, the odd youngest son, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Alexander Waugh, author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons and himself the offspring of a famous and eccentric family, tells their baroque tale with a novelistic richness to rival Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. From the Trade Paperback edition.
β¦ Subjects
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany
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### Review Praise from Britain for *The House of Wittgenstein* βThe story in this book is so gripping and fascinating that it is remarkable that it has never been told in this way before. It is probably just as well, for it is hard to imagine another account showing such fluency, wit and attention