A winter in the city of pleasure: Bucharest

Vivid, elegant, and richly observant, A Winter in the City of Pleasure: Bucharest by Florence K. Berger captures the allure and contradictions of Romania’s glittering capital at the height of its early twentieth-century cosmopolitan splendor. Blending travel writing, social portraiture, and personal reflection, Berger paints an unforgettable picture of a city alive with music, salons, politics, and decadence, where East and West met in a dazzling dance of refinement and intrigue.

Through her keen eyes, Bucharest emerges as more than a setting—it becomes a living organism, full of grace and restlessness, aristocracy and poverty, Orthodox ritual and modern temptation. Berger’s prose moves between cultural detail and romantic atmosphere, offering a glimpse into the elegance and volatility of a society poised between tradition and transformation.

Evocative and introspective, this work stands as both a travel memoir and a cultural document, preserving the charm and melancholy of a vanished Europe where pleasure and poignancy intertwined beneath the winter lights.

Complete edition of Florence K. Berger’s travel memoir of early 20th-century Bucharest

Blends cultural observation, history, and personal reflection

Offers a vivid portrait of Romanian society between East and West

Essential for readers of travel writing, European history, and cultural studies