The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members...
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Author: Alexander Waugh
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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Waugh, Alexander

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

CHF 26.25

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

CHF 26.25
Author: Alexander Waugh
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Alexander Waugh
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/20/2010
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780307278722


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/18/2010 pg. 28

About the Author
ALEXANDER WAUGH is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh and the son of columnist Auberon Waugh. He has written several books, including Classical Music: A New Way of Listening, Time, and God. He lives in Somerset, England, with his wife and three children.

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