Visconti's lavish portrait of Ludwig II, the ' Mad King' of Bavaria. From his glittering coronation to his mysterious suicide, Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) epitomised the doomed nineteenth-century Romantic hero. A loner by nature, he was tormented by his unrequited love for his cousin, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Romy Schneider), who sensed his true sexual nature & fragile grip on reality. But as war raged around him, Ludwig's sole obsession remained the visionary music of Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard), & he retreated more & more into a fantasy world, alarming his ministers through his irrational behaviour, neglect of state affairs & lavish expenditure on several fairytale castles. Judged unfit to rule, Ludwig was eventually declared insane. ...

The kingdom of Bavaria was absorbed into the German Empire during the latter half of the 19th century. The stunningly handsome king of Bavaria
- who never married & who would have operas & plays privately staged for him
- wandered between fantasy & reality, alone in his extravagant crystal palace, Neuschwanstein.

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The creator of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929), the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945-1951) & the Seagram Building in New York (1954-1958), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. This book explores more than 20 of his projects between 1906 & 1967. ...

Ludwig von Mises was one of the greatest economists & political scientists of the 20th century. He revolutionised the understanding of money, inflation & recessions; refuted the arguments for socialism; &, provided a devastating critique of the methodologies of mainstream economics. This book provides an overview of Mises' achievements. ...

Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973) was an intransigent advocate of laissez-faire who believed that the government should not intervene in the economy at all. As early as 1920, he claimed that socialism would fail economically. This volume 19 is part of the " Major Conservative & Libertarian Thinkers" series. ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy, & is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. This book traces the complex relationship between this philosopher's life, his work & his time. It

Includes:: many telling"es from the philosopher's own writings, as well as illustrations.

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This memoir of Ludwig Wittgenstein was written by his friend Norman Malcolm in 1958. This edition

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