Christopher Clark
A Scandal in Königsberg Hardback Book
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A Times Best Book of the Year 2025A remarkable microhistory from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringIt takes a confident historian to write a short book the story is distilled to its powerful essence he knows precisely whats important This small book is many things, but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade preachers who understood women and love Gerard de Groot, The Times Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of Knigsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant. But in the late 1830s, just for a short while, it became famous for all the wrong reasons. Christopher Clarks brilliant new book is the result of many years of fascination with this strange case. Sensational accusations were bandied about, implying that beneath the towns somnolent surface there were dark erotic currents and wrenching betrayals of trust. For the Prussian authorities this was just the sort of moral collapse they feared most. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, which had unsettled a generation, every lapse could be seen as the harbinger of new storms. A Scandal in Knigsberg beautifully brings to life a time and a place that we would now situate in the tranquil Biedermeier years between the seismic upheavals of the 1810s and 1840s. But there is a timeless quality to this small vortex of turbulence, in which spiritual...
Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 416 g; Dimensions: 143 x 225 x 20
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A Times Best Book of the Year 2025A remarkable microhistory from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringIt takes a confident historian to write a short book the story is distilled to its powerful essence he knows precisely whats important This small book is many things, but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade preachers who understood women and love Gerard de Groot, The Times Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of Knigsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant. But in the late 1830s, just for a short while, it became famous for all the wrong reasons. Christopher Clarks brilliant new book is the result of many years of fascination with this strange case. Sensational accusations were bandied about, implying that beneath the towns somnolent surface there were dark erotic currents and wrenching betrayals of trust. For the Prussian authorities this was just the sort of moral collapse they feared most. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, which had unsettled a generation, every lapse could be seen as the harbinger of new storms. A Scandal in Knigsberg beautifully brings to life a time and a place that we would now situate in the tranquil Biedermeier years between the seismic upheavals of the 1810s and 1840s. But there is a timeless quality to this small vortex of turbulence, in which spiritual...
Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 416 g; Dimensions: 143 x 225 x 20
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Christopher Clark
A Scandal in Königsberg Hardback Book
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