{"product_id":"florian-illies-1913-9781846689611","title":"1913","description":"A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.","brand":"Profile Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":54100970602838,"sku":"9781846689611-V","price":7.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53326937194838,"sku":"9781846689611-G","price":7.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781846689611_1.jpg?v=1778087408","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/florian-illies-1913-9781846689611","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}