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Informationen zum Autor 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 rise of Nazism! he briefly moved to London! taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York! he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide. Klappentext In this newly available English translation the reader rediscovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the author of Amok and Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman: his compassion towards human suffering! the horror of war and his faith in idealism! generosity! love - values that can! in an instant! illuminate an entire existence. One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society -- Nicholas Lezard The Guardian In the 1920s and 30s, Stefan Zweig was one of the most famous writers in the world. Thanks to the enterprising Pushkin Press, it is now possible to read the novellas on which his reputation must finally depend -- Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement Fortunately, the Pushkin Press has been publishing some of Zweig's works in fluent translations and handsome editions . My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books -- Anthony Daniels The Sunday Telegraph This latest volume in Pushkin Press's wonderful edition of Zweig [is] effortlessly great -- David Sexton Evening Standard Three gems from the European master of the short story Zusammenfassung In this newly available English translation the reader rediscovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the author of Amok and Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman: his compassion towards human suffering! the horror of war and his faith in idealism! generosity! love - values that can! in an instant! illuminate an entire existence. ...

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"What did Zweig have that brought him the fanatical devotion of millions of readers, the admiration of Herman Hesse, the invitation to give the eulogy at the funeral of Sigmund Freud? To learn that, we would have to have a biography that illuminated all aspects of his work, that read all of his books, and that challenged, rather than accepted, the apparent modesty of his statements about his life and work." - Benjamin Moser, Bookforum

"Touching and delightful. Those adjectives are not meant as faint praise. Zweig may be especially appealing now because rather than being a progenitor of big ideas, he was a serious entertainer, and an ardent and careful observer of habits, foibles, passions and mistakes." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"Zweig's readability made him one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century all over the world, with translations into thirty languages. His lives of Mary Stuart and Marie Antoinette were international bestsellers." - Julie Kavanagh, The Economist Intelligent Life

"Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies, whether in essay or monograph form, remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in... Full-sized books on Marie-Antoinette, Mary Stuart, and Magellan were international best sellers." - Clive James, Cultural Amnesia

"Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding." - Paul Bailey, Times Literary Supplement

"One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

"Fortunately, the Pushkin Press has been publishing some of Zweig's works in fluent translations and handsome editions ... My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books." - Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph

"This latest volume in Pushkin Press's wonderful edition of Zweig [is] effortlessly great." - David Sexton, Evening Standard

Product details

• Authors: Zweig Stefan, Stefan Zweig, Stefan (Author) Zweig
• Assisted by: Anthea Bell (Translation), Anthea (Translator (GER)) Bell (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9781901285864
• ISBN: 978-1-901285-86-4
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 165 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Pushkin Collection
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature