
Romance Novels • German literature
The novel Maria Vecera (1930) is a historical story based on the tragic love affair between the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Maria Vecera, culminating in their deaths in 1889 at Mayerling Castle.
Set in Vienna in the 1880s, the novel follows Rudolf, the thirty-year-old heir to the Habsburg dynasty, as he struggles with a loveless marriage, the political pressures of his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, and his own ideals of freedom.
In his search for meaning, Rudolf meets seventeen-year-old Maria, a captivating and passionate girl, and their love quickly becomes an obsession. The novel...
Progres, 1966.Hardcover with dust jacket.