Research Catalog

Title

The last of all possible worlds ; and, The temptation to do good : two novels / by Peter F. Drucker.

Author

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005

Publication

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.

Description

348 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Best-selling author Peter F. Drucker wrote just two novels. Here for the first time in paperback are both. In The Last of All Possible Worlds, royalty, bankers, lovers, and wives intertwine to create a vivid portrait of Europe in the early 1900s. We meet wise and worldly Prince Sobieski, Vienna's ambassador in London, his enchanting wife, her English lover, and her enigmatic lifelong companion, Josefa. When Sobieski's illegitimate daughter makes a demand of her influential father, the unspoken rules of the family are challenged. Sobieski's world is further upset when two powerful merchant bankers, the tragic McGregor Hinton and the ambitious Julius von Mosenthal, arrive in London--both with their own requirements of the prince. The Temptation to Do Good tells the story of Father Heinz Zimmerman, the well-regarded president of an American Catholic university. When he attempts to help a chemistry teacher who has been denied tenure he accidentally opens the door to the underlying tensions in the university.

Alternative Title

Temptation to do good

Subjects

• Fiction
• Universities and colleges > United States > Fiction
• Bankers > Fiction
• Ambassadors > Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Catholic Church Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Last Of All Possible Worlds -- Preface -- Sobieski -- Hinton -- Mosenthal -- "An die Musik" -- The Temptation To Do Good -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Part Four

ISBN

• 1589881087
• 9781589881082

OCLC

• 923553052
• SCSB-10553233

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library