List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Prologue | p. xi |
A Childhood Without Parents (1837-55) | p. 1 |
Annéees de Pèlerinage | p. 1 |
The Joys of Love | p. 2 |
The Sorrows of Love | p. 4 |
Years of Happiness | p. 10 |
The Princess | p. 14 |
Brainwashing | p. 18 |
Changes | p. 27 |
A Marriage of Convenience (1855-64) | p. 34 |
From Bad to Worse? | p. 34 |
Self-deception | p. 37 |
A Journey into the Future | p. 43 |
Coffee Mornings in Berlin | p. 47 |
Storm Clouds | p. 53 |
On the Run | p. 60 |
Redemption | p. 66 |
Last-minute Panic | p. 70 |
Wagner (1864-83) | p. 77 |
Tristan and Isolde | p. 77 |
Power and Influence | p. 84 |
Intrigues in Munich | p. 91 |
Involuntary Exile | p. 93 |
Decisions | p. 101 |
Guilt and Atonement | p. 104 |
Human, All Too human | p. 112 |
The Early Reich | p. 120 |
Daily Life in Wahnfried | p. 127 |
First Night | p. 132 |
An Uncertain Future | p. 140 |
Mephisto Waltz | p. 146 |
Death in Venice | p. 150 |
The First Lady of Bayreuth (1883-1900) | p. 157 |
Trials and Tribulations | p. 157 |
Friends and Assistants | p. 164 |
Light and Shade | p. 169 |
Crocodile Tears | p. 178 |
A Change of Direction | p. 182 |
The Year of the Three Kaisers | p. 186 |
The Bayreuth Circle | p. 195 |
Family Planning | p. 201 |
Oedipus Rex? | p. 205 |
La Grande Dame | p. 211 |
Gone to the Dogs | p. 217 |
A New Era (1900-14) | p. 224 |
Parsifal Mania | p. 225 |
Iconoclasm | p. 237 |
Regime Change | p. 243 |
Rabble | p. 254 |
Escalation | p. 263 |
Dusk Falls on the Royalties | p. 272 |
Tutte le Corde | p. 275 |
The Long End (1914-30) | p. 285 |
World Conflagration | p. 285 |
Life During the First World War | p. 290 |
An Austrian in Bayreuth | p. 300 |
A Living Monument | p. 304 |
Finale Lamentoso | p. 310 |
Epilogue | p. 312 |
Acknowledgements | p. 315 |
Notes | p. 317 |
Bibliography | p. 349 |
Index | p. 355 |
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