A legacy

by SybilleBedford (Author), SybilleBedford (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1978

  $3.27

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $4.34

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $12.42

  On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit and acute observation, their personal upheavals and tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War.