Category: Biographies
It is a great gratification to me that the story of my life—which I cannot suppose to be of general interest except in so far as it is linked with the story of a world-wide movement—is now put before the great community of the English-speaking nations; for it is in these very...
And now I was to be taken “into the world.” Our name might have given us the right to move among the highest aristocracy, for there is doubtless not a family of the high nobilit...
15. PART SEVENThese pages have of late been very full of Union reports and “movement” news, and it looks as if we both had been immersed in political life and sadly taken up with league-breed...
9. PART ONEWhat gives me some justification for publishing my experiences is the fact that I have met many interesting and distinguished contemporaries, and that my participation in a move...
14. PART SIXXXVIII THE AUSTRIAN INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP IS FORMED Return · Skeptical reception of my reports · Resumption of our literary labors · Pandolfi suggests enlisting recruits in t...
13. PART FIVEIn May, 1885, nine years after our elopement, we returned home. Not without a pang did we say farewell to the Caucasus; we had grown very fond of the beautiful country, and our...
12. PART FOURXVII WEDDING JOURNEY On the Black Sea · Jason mood · Arrival in Asia · The hotel in Poti · Kutais· Count Rosmorduc · Reception at Prince Zeretelli’s · National dances · Journey...
11. PART THREEXV IN THE SUTTNER HOUSE Resolve to take a position · The Suttner family · Artur Gundaccar von Suttner · Life in the Vienna _palais_ and in Schloss Harmannsdorf · The Exposition...
1. VOLUME IIt is a great gratification to me that the story of my life—which I cannot suppose to be of general interest except in so far as it is linked with the story of a world-wide move...
8. PART SEVENMy review. Invitation to Berlin. A. H. Fried and his plans. The reading. The Berlin _Tageblatt_ on a letter from Frédéric Passy. A banquet. Voices from the press. Evening at Spi...
6. PART FIVE_Schriftstellerroman_ and _Das Maschinenzeitalter_. Journey to Paris. Renewed acquaintance with Alfred Nobel. The Schnäbele affair. Madame Adam’s salon. Princess Tamara of Georg...
3. PART TWOSinging lessons resumed. Maître Duprez. The school in the Rue Laval. In the house of the Princess of Mingrelia. In the imperial box at the opera. Summer at Duprez’s place in the...
7. PART SIXReturn. Skeptical reception of my reports. Resumption of our literary labors. Pandolfi suggests enlisting recruits in the Austrian parliament for the conference at Rome. Corresp...
5. PART FOUROn the Black Sea. Jason mood. Arrival in Asia. The hotel in Poti. Kutais. Count Rosmorduc. Reception at Prince Zeretelli’s. National dances. Journey to Gordi. Prince Niko with e...
2. PART ONEElvira. Playing “puff.” My mother’s singing. Clairvoyant Aunt Lotti. Roulette and trente-et-quarante. Castles in the air. My first journey. Season in Wiesbaden. Return. Grillpar...
4. PART THREEResolve to take a position. The Suttner family. Artur Gundaccar von Suttner. Life in the Vienna _palais_ and in Schloss Harmannsdorf. The Exposition year. Secret love. Letters f...