A Princess in Berlin: A Novel

By Arthur R.G. Solmssen

Book Overview

Artist Peter Ellis, an American in Berlin, travels from manicured country lawns and aristocratic drawing rooms to noisy cabarets and squalid back alleys. And his love for a beautiful, sheltered Jewish... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316803693
• ISBN13: 9780316803694
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Come closer to Berlin in the 20s

A Princess in Berlin is a good book I have no doubt in recommending: an interesting an pleasurable reading. Berlin in the 1920s, through a myriad of characters and stories in different levels, is its true protagonist. The book tells a highly formative and easy to read story. We come to understand, among other things, the political and economic situation that made possible the arrival of Hitler and the nazis. It may lack some depth in its characters, and the story seems sometimes streched to tell us many bits of history. It probaly comes short in style to become a masterpiece, but it certainly succeeds in taking you close to Berlin in a critical moment in history. And despite its limitations, the book remains close to your heart. This probably explains its hughe success

A great novel about Berlin in the twenties

This is a wonderful story of an aspiring young American painter, a veteran of World War I, living in Berlin in the early twenties, in the aftermath of Germany's defeat and the middle of the Weimar inflation. The young man's dollars make him wealthy, and he becomes involved in the life of the city on several levels, the financial and political world as well as the artistic. Meanwhile, in Munich, the National Socialists loom, rant, and look for their chance to exploit the chaos.As a novelist, Solmssen, a practicing attorney, is an "amateur" in the very best sense. His love of the city and fascination with its history are very exhilarating. He wanted to get as much Berlin as he could into the book. It's too bad it's out of print.