Shooting Stars - 10 Historical Miniatures

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 Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig.Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig, in a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell Zusammenfassung Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Zweig, Stefan (Author) Zweig, Zweig Stefan
• Assisted by: Anthea Bell (Translation), Anthea (Translator (GER)) Bell (Translation), Bell Anthea (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781782270508
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-050-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / World, General & world history, General and world history