World of Yesterday

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman , Amok and Fear . In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity , and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. Klappentext 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.Zweig's memoir is a unique love letter to the lost world of pre-war Europe. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Zweig Stefan, Stefan Zweig
• Assisted by: Anthea Bell (Translation), Bell Anthea (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9781906548674
• ISBN: 978-1-906548-67-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; austria, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Memoirs, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Autobiography: literary, Literature: history & criticism, Autobiography: writers, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs