On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the
Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf
fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two
shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.
Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly
tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the
span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong."
In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual
and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among
them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl,
Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde
was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies
these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with
that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of
Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent
sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara
Hitler.
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