The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

by Orlando Figes

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The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make...

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  • ISBN10 1627792147
  • ISBN13 9781627792141
  • Publish Date 8 October 2019 (first published 19 September 2019)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Metropolitan Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 592
  • Language English