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100 1 $aFiges, Orlando,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Europeans :$bthree lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture /$cOrlando Figes.
264 1 $aLondon :$bAllen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axvii, 551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThis is a dazzling, highly original account of three remarkable individuals and their part in creating the matchless new culture of 19th-century Europe. This book is both a highly original, panoramic account of how in the 19th century huge aesthetic, economic, technological and legal changes created, for the first time, a genuinely pan-European culture - and an intimate story of a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives caught up an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to navigate through an ever more prosperous, demanding and international culture. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to create a precarious but real living, shuttling back and forth, from the British Isles to Imperial Russia. The Europeans is Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge events through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle. Events which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premiers and bestsellers came into existence.
600 10 $aViardot-García, Pauline,$d1821-1910.
600 10 $aTurgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,$d1818-1883.
600 10 $aViardot, Louis,$d1800-1883.
651 0 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
651 0 $aEurope$xHistory$y1789-1900.
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