{"product_id":"1913-2","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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nYet 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 Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221697679704,"sku":"9781846689611","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781846689611_e3bdc689-faa0-461f-a7f7-b9cb906ece9f.jpg?v=1769658328","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/1913-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}