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Journey Into the Past by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, "Journey into the Past," published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig's papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything--time, war, bet ...Show more
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction
Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Cla ...Show more
Journeys by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography
For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continen ...Show more
Letter From an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator)
Category: Short Stories
These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Oph ls and starring Joane Fontaine.Elsewhere in ...Show more
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
Category: Classic Fiction
The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe ...Show more
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography
Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistr ...Show more
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography Memoir
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, who have been drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that were to come to such a sudden and unexpected end: the fourteen-year-old who took Versailles by storm, her frustrations with an aloof and inattentive husban ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig; Eden Paul (Translator); Cedar Paul (Translator)
Category: History
Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots. From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power stru ...Show more
Mary Stuart by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography Memoir
Zweig's gripping biography of one of history's maldestined characters Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne of England, was condemned for treason and executed at the age of forty-four. A potential threat to the stability of the English Crown, she was held captive for t ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
Category: Culture
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
Category: History
'Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.' As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passio ...Show more