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World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
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Description for World of Yesterday
Paperback. Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to rise. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386.
'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of history.' During his lifetime, Stefan Zweig's (1881-1942) works were immensely popular and widely translated. In the decades after his death, he was largely forgotten in the English-speaking world. Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of interest in this singular author, and Pushkin Press has ... Read more
'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of history.' During his lifetime, Stefan Zweig's (1881-1942) works were immensely popular and widely translated. In the decades after his death, he was largely forgotten in the English-speaking world. Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of interest in this singular author, and Pushkin Press has ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906548674
SKU
V9781906548674
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About Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the ... Read more
Reviews for World of Yesterday
The World of Yesterday is one of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century, as perfect in its evocation of the world Zweig loved, as it is in its portrayal of how that world was destroyed
David Hare This absolutely extraordinary book is more than just an autobiography. (...) This is a book that should be read by anyone ... Read more
David Hare This absolutely extraordinary book is more than just an autobiography. (...) This is a book that should be read by anyone ... Read more