The former Prussian and German port of Königsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant.
But in the late 1830s, just for a short while, it became famous for all the wrong reasons.
Christopher Clark brings to life a Prussia reeling in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, delving into a scandal in which spiritual hunger, vanity, professional rivalry, naivety and sheer human waywardness threatened to tear a city apart.



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