The telegram reaches Sweden on the morning of Friday, 10 December 1896. Sixty-three-year-old Alfred Nobel has passed away quickly and unexpectedly during the night, at his villa in the Italian city of San Remo. The news makes it into Aftonbladet the same day. ?Every educated Swede feels sorrow at the loss of one of their greatest countrymen,? writes the newspaper, while avoiding the question that will soon be on every-one?s lips: Who will now inherit his riches?NOBEL: The Enigmatic Alfred and His Prizes is the fascinating story of the path from Alfred Nobel?s youth to the high-stakes drama that enveloped the dynamite king?s last will and testament. Set against the backdrop of cities such as St Petersburg, Hamburg and Paris, and framed by family quarrels, heartbreak, successes and betrayals, NOBEL is also a captivating account of nineteenthcentury Europe that explores its political...
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