The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria by Michael Petzet, Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria

Michael Petzet, Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

264 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark slow-paced
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Tall, handsome, romantic, with a pronounced taste for Schiller and Wagner, 'Mad' Ludwig II of Bavaria appeared in 1846 to his people like an eighteen-year-old Lohengrin.In June 1886, corpulent and toothless, he was declared insane by his ministers...

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