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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
Schnitzler's Century The Making of MiddleClass Culture 18151914 Author:Peter Gay An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his master of ceremonies, Gay offers a brilli... more »ant reexamination of the hundred-year period that began with the defeat of Napoleon and concluded with the conflagration of 1914. This is a defining work by one of America's greatest historians. 12 b/w illustrations. "If the past is envisioned as a foreign country, then there is no one, living or dead, better suited to serve as our guide than Peter Gay. In Schnitzler's Century, he has distilled a lifetime of learning into 320 pages of sparkling prose....I can't remember the last time I had such funand learned so muchfrom any work of history or nonfiction."David Nasaw, winner of the Bancroft Prize for The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst« less