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CLARK CHRISTOPHER A SCANDAL IN KÖNIGSBERG

A Times Best Book of the Year 2025   A remarkable micro-history from the author of The
Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring    'It takes a confident historian to write a short
book... the story is distilled to its powerful essence  he knows precisely what's important...
This small book is many things  but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade
preachers who understood women and love' - Gerard de Groot  The Times  Now part of the Russian
Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad  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's brilliant new book is the result of many years of
fascination with this strange case. Sensational accusations were bandied about  implying that
beneath the town's somnolent surface there were dark erotic currents and wrenching betrayals of
trust. For the Prussian authorities this was just the sort of moral collapse they feared most.
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars  which had unsettled a generation 
every lapse could be seen as the harbinger of new storms.   A Scandal in Königsberg beautifully
brings to life a time and a place that we would now situate in the tranquil 'Biedermeier' years
between the seismic upheavals of the 1810s and 1840s. But there is a timeless quality to this
small vortex of turbulence  in which spiritual hunger  vanity  professional rivalry  sexual
incontinence  naivety and sheer human waywardness threatened to tear a city apart.

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