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BLUNT, WILFRID WITH A CHAPTER ON LUDWIG AND THE ARTS BY DR. MICHAEL PETZET. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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BLUNT, WILFRID WITH A CHAPTER ON LUDWIG AND THE ARTS BY DR. MICHAEL PETZET. The Dream King: Ludwig II Of Bavaria.
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1978. 0140036067 / 9780140036060 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Very good condition.
Tall, handsome, romantic, with a pronounced taste for Schiller and Wagner, 'Mad' Ludwig II of Bavaria appeared in 1864 to his people like an eighteen-year-old Lohengrin. In June 1886, corpulent and toothless, he was declared insane by his ministers and imprisoned. Five days later the bodies of Ludwig and his warder were found floating un the shallow water of Lake Starnberg. Today he is remembered for some of Bavaria's most lucrativce attractions - Wagner's operas (fruits of his quixotic patronage), the opera house at Bayreuth and a series of enchanted castles - the very things that Ludwig was condemned for. In this lavishly illustrated biography Wilfrid Blunt has skilfully portrayed the fantastic world of a strange and misunderstood king. Includes an Index.
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11.70 USD
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