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Grand Hotel Vienna

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Making Of

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May we give you an idea about this book by simply presenting you the Table of Content:

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Prologue

“Tasty? Quelle Malheur!”

Historical Footnotes 12
Welcome to Vienna - King Richard the Lionheart of England - Hostage in Austria - Viennese Coffee for Beginners - Empress Maria Theresia - Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Strauss - Napoleon - The Waltz - Artistocracy - Viennese Cuisinne -
Setting The Stage 32
Modern Vienna - Emperor Franz Joseph - ‘Ringstrasse’ - Kippling, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Bruckner, Dickens and Queen Victoria - Königgraetz & Lissa - Johann Strauss - Baedecker - Sacher, Schneider, Tietz -
Money To Invest 42
I build you the largest Hotel in Vienna - The Private Mansion of Anton Schneider - First Viennese Hotel Joint-Stock Company - The new Opera House - The Suez Canal Myth - Cornerstone to the Grandest Hotel in Vienna -
Wagon Lits - Grand Hotel on Wheels
How Will You Call Your Hotel? 52
Adler, Lehar, Schliemann, Rockefeller -
Splendid, Luxurious and First-Class -
The Grand Hotel 58
The First Grand Hotel in the World - American Steam Elevators - 200 Private Bathrooms -
Executive Chef LouisTremmel -
Modern Times 66
The World Exhibition - Grand Hotel: Magnificent Dining Rooms and an Outstanding Porter ...  - The Invention of the Telephone - Installed in Every Room - Eduard Strauss Conducts - Which Prince?  - The Haunt of Aristocrates - The Imperial Opens -
78 Pulp Fiction at
the Grand Hotel
Countess Maria Larisch at the Grand Hotel - Franz Joseph Versus Rudolf - Cupid pierced the heart of Rudolf - Baroness Mary Vetsera - The Grand Hotel - Epicentre of the Happenings - A Last Will -
90 The Grand Journey
The Orient Express Stops in Vienna - Grand Hotels in Europe - The Last Civilised Culinary Stop - Yvette Guilbert - Crocodiles Not Allowed -
98 A Great Jubilee
1894, Johann Strauss, Fifty Years Jubilee - Brahms and Prince Konstantin of Russia - The Bangquette’s Menue -
104 The Turn of Times
One of the Most Popular Politicians - The Glamorous Centre of the Empire - House-Fiaker Payerhuber -
- Strategical Teatime - The Great War -
116 A New Beginning
Charleston took over from Waltz - Vienna recovers - Peculiar Guests - A New Regime - Major Facelift - The Future -

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136 pages, Hardcover (real cloth bound / gold stamping), laminated jacket.
ISBN 981-00-1286-1
160 x 235 mm, 700 g

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