The World Of Yesterday
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 life. Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna; its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. A truthful and passionate account of the horror that tore apart European culture, The World of Yesterday gives us insight into the history of a world brutally destroyed, written by a master at the height of his genius.
Confusion
Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable ...
Royal Game: A Chess Story
Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money....
Montaigne
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an émigré-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaign...
Shooting Stars
'Gems of literary perfection' Telegraph Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig Such dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date, a single hour, even j...
Journey Into The Past
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...
Nietzsche
A compelling portrait of one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this vivid biographical study, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's hab...
Encounters and Destinies
' The European voice... sparkling with poetic brilliance' - TLS 'Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies [are] almost too impressive to take in' - Clive James Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerfu...
Beware of Pity
'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' GUARDIAN 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' ALI SMITH 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't already know about this?' WE...
Burning Secret
The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on t...
Marie Antoinette
'Excellent biography' New York Times Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig's definitive biography gives us Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant worlds...
Journeys
'Zweig's celebration of the brotherhood of peoples reminds us there is another way' The Nation When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously u...
Mary Queen of Scots
'Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding' Paul Bailey, TLS The classic biography of the tragic queen From the moment of her bi...
Magellan
'Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in' Clive James The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Fer...
Amok
»Det hade inte gått mer än en timme sedan den där kvinnan kom in i mitt rum och jag hade redan kastat hela min existens över ända och löpte amok ut i tomheten« En excentrisk världsmästare i schack möter oväntat motstånd från en okänd medpassagerare på en atlantångare. En livstrött änka av adlig börd träffar en ung desperado på kasinot i Monte Carlo. En kolonialläkare med svaga nerver får besök av en beslöjad kvinna i automobil... Österrikaren Stefan Zweig (1881-1941) var en av sin tids mest uppburna författare. Med nyutgåvan av den klassiska memoarboken »Världen av i går« och Wes Andersons film The Grand Budapest Hotel har författarskapet fått nytt liv. I detta urval av Stefan Zweigs mest älskade noveller om besatthet och erotik bjuds läsaren in till en svunnen epok och dess dolda lidelser. »Efter 50 år av obemärkthet, ja närmast glömska, har Europas en gång mest lästa författare, Stefan Zweig, fått en remarkabel renässans.« Göran Rosenberg
Amok
»Det hade inte gått mer än en timme sedan den där kvinnan kom in i mitt rum och jag hade redan kastat hela min existens över ända och löpte amok ut i tomheten « En excentrisk världsmästare i schack möter oväntat motstånd från en okänd medpassagerare på en atlantångare. En livstrött änka av adlig börd träffar en ung desperado på kasinot i Monte Carlo. En kolonialläkare med svaga nerver får besök av en beslöjad kvinna i automobil ... Österrikaren Stefan Zweig (1881-1941) var en av sin tids mest uppburna författare. Med nyutgåvan av den klassiska memoarboken »Världen av i går« och Wes Andersons film The Grand Budapest Hotel har författarskapet fått nytt liv. I detta urval av Stefan Zweigs mest älskade noveller om besatthet och erotik bjuds läsaren in till en svunnen epok och dess dolda lidelser. »Efter 50 år av obemärkthet, ja närmast glömska, har Europas en gång mest lästa författare, Stefan Zweig, fått en remarkabel renässans.« Göran Rosenberg
Amok (Turkiska)
Amok (Turkiska)
Post Office Girl
It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks i...
A Chess Story
'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' Economist 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov' Paul Bailey, TLS Chess champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the games played in his imagination. In agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? Stark, intense, overpowering, A Chess Story is a grandmaster's examination of madness and the power of a mind willing to sacrifice everything to win. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Alexander Starritt. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in
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Die Welt von Gestern
Diese Erinnerungen eines Europäers zeigen noch einmal die Gelöstheit und Heiterkeit Wiens und Österreichs in den Jahren vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, die Welt der Sicherheit, die Stefan Zweig selbst wie einigen, wenn auch nicht allen, die individuelle Freiheit zu garantieren vermochte; sie zeigen Glanz und Schatten über Europa bis zum Sonnenuntergang, bis zu Hitlers Machtausübung, bis Europa 'sich zum zweiten Mal selbstmörderisch zerfleischte im Bruderkriege'. Stefan Zweig hat 'die Welt von Gestern' als Zeitzeuge aufgezeichnet und dabei nicht so sehr sein eigenes Schicksal festgehalten, sondern das seiner Generation; er hat mit diesem Buch, weit über das Persönliche hinaus, ein Kompendium der geistigen Welt in der ersten Hälfte unseres Jahrhunderts erstellt.
Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky
Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were c...
Die Welt von Gestern
Die Welt von Gestern
