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The World Of Yesterday
''The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European'' (German title ) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire.Giorgio Manacorda (2010''Nota bibliografica''in Joseph Roth, '' La Marcia di Radetzky'', Newton Classici quotation: He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before they both committed suicide in February 1942. The book was first published in the original German-language by an anti-Nazi Exilliteratur publishing firm based in Stockholm (1942), as . It was first published in English in April 1943 by Viking Press.''The World of Yesterday'' Viking Press. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig ( ; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in ''Drei Meister'' (1920; ''Three Masters''), and decisive historical events in ''Decisive Moments in History'' (1927). He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette (''Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman'', 1932), among others. Zweig's best-known fiction includes ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (1922), ''Amok (novella), Amok'' (1922), ''Fear (Zweig novella), Fear'' (1925), ''Confusion (novella), Confusion of Feelings'' (1927), ''Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman'' (1927), the Psychological fiction, psychologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
