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The world of yesterday an autobiography
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Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that ...
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Chess Story
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Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg (Translator), Professor Peter Gay (Introduction by)
"Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship ...
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Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
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Beware of pity
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Stefan Zweig's only novel was written while he was in exile from Germany, living in London in 1938. It is an object lesson on the topic of pity, a subtle psychological analysis of its implications that resonates with the political ills of the time. The main action is set in 1914, in the months leading up to World War I. Pushed on by circumstances ...
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The Post-Office Girl
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Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg (Translator)
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine ...
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Burning Secret
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A lonely twelve-year-old is befriended and is infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. When his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother, the boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable. This title is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920s.
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator)
The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ...
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Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Marie Antoinette
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Amok and Other Stories
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator)
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death; and a First World War POW longing to be home again ...
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World of Yesterday
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"The autobiography of the internationally famous biographer and dramatist is a chronicle of three ages: the golden days of Vienna that ended with Word War I; that war and its aftermath; and the Hitler years. The three ages do come to life in Zweig's book."--Publishers Weekly
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Royal Game and Other Stories
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Schachnovelle
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Conqueror of the Seas - The Story of Magellan
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Fantastic Night and Other Stories
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator)
Five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in this powerful volume. "Fantastic Night" is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and ...
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Balzac
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Este libro monumental, publicado por primera vez en 1920, no es solo la obra maestra de Stefan Zweig, la mejor demostracion posible del fervor que sentia por el gran Honore de Balzac, sino tambien una novela fascinante que descubre al lector no solo el trabajo, la lucha, el esfuerzo y el desafio del genio, sino tambien sus debilidades. Tras esta ...
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The royal game
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"The Royal Game" crackles with suspense; it is the story of a man who outwits the Gestapo and finds the courage to go on living. Whilst in prison, he finds sanctuary in "imaginary" chess, but later on engages in a confrontation with the chess prodigy of the day.
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Marie Antoinette : the portrait of an average woman
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Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman" is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old ...
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Ungeduld Des Herzens
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Verwirrung Der Gefühle
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Maria Stuart
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Twilight: Moonbeam Alley
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Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator)
"Twilight" is the story of a fashionable lady who is banished from Versailles by the king. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she entertains lovers and friends from Paris, she comes to find it intolerable. Life at court, for all its essential emptiness, was the only thing that gave her existence meaning, and ...
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Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture
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Stefan Zweig, Cedar Paul (Translator)
Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth - which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself - is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig. As Zweig describes in this volume: 'Imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who have ...
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Brennendes Geheimnis
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Maria Antonieta
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