The Reluctant Empress

基本信息

Edited by：Brigitte Hamann

Publisher：Faber and Faber

Published：03 May 2011

Language：English

Format Paperback：456 pages

ISBN 10：0571271308

ISBN 13：9780571271306

Weight：200g

Dimensions：135 x 216 x 32（mm）

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書籍簡介

奧地利伊麗莎白皇后，家人都稱她為茜茜，她的故事發生在一個著名的歐洲皇室愛情故事中——1853年，歐洲*秀的單身漢弗朗茨·約瑟夫皇帝在她15歲時對她一見鍾情;第二年他們結婚了。從表面上看，這是一場童話般的婚姻，但事後看來，這一切更加辛酸，因為她的死標誌着哈布斯堡帝國的暮年。

1988年首次出版時，布麗吉特·哈曼(Brigitte Hamann)的這本傳記講述了伊麗莎白從巴伐利亞貴族出生到被一名意大利無政府主義者暗殺的故事，這本書讓人們對伊麗莎白有了更深刻的理解。在她的一生中，她僅僅因為她的優雅和美麗而被崇拜;現在，皇后第一次被描繪成一個更堅強的人，她對自己的婚姻感到痛苦，尋求獨立，並與婆婆蘇菲大公爵夫人的強大影響作鬥爭。這本書由一位受人尊敬的歷史學家研究，是伊麗莎白一生、死亡和遺產的權威記述。

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as Sisi, belongs to a famous love story of European royalty - in 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was fifteen; they were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairytale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her death signalled the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire.

At the time of its first publication in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's biography, which tells Elisabeth's story from her birth as a member of the Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist, led to a revised and deeper understanding of Elisabeth. During her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; now, for the first time, the Empress was portrayed as a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie. Researched by a respected historian, this is the definitive account of Elisabeth's life, death and legacy.

作者簡介

布麗吉特·哈曼(出生於1940年)是維也納的作家和歷史學家。她出生在德國埃森，曾在明斯特和維也納學習歷史，然後回到埃森從事記者工作。1965年，她嫁給了歷史學家兼學者岡瑟·哈曼(Gunther Hamann, 1924-1994)，移居維也納，成為奧地利和德國的聯合公民。她在維也納大學獲得博士學位，1978年發表了一篇關於奧地利王儲魯道夫生活的論文，同年出版成書。她第一部被翻譯成英文的作品是《不情願的皇后:奧地利伊麗莎白皇后傳記》(1986年，後來在費伯發現再版)。隨後出版的著作包括希特勒的《維也納:獨裁者的學徒》(1999年)和《維妮弗瑞德·瓦格納:希特勒拜羅伊特中心的生活》(2005年)。

Brigitte Hamann (b. 1940) is an author and historian based in Vienna. She was born in Essen, Germany, and studied history in Munster and Vienna before returning to Essen to work as a journalist. In 1965 she married the historian and academic Gunther Hamann (1924-1994), moved to Vienna and took joint Austrian-German citizenship. She earned her doctorate at the University of Vienna with a 1978 thesis on the life of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, published in book form that same year. Her first work to be translated into English was The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1986, later reissued in Faber Finds). Subsequent books have included Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship (1999) and Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth (2005).