The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European

Stefan Zweig

ISBN 10: 1782271228 / ISBN 13: 9781782271222

Published by Pushkin Press, 2014

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No dust jacket. Tiny abrasion to cover at bottom of spine. A few tiny spots, scuffs to textblock edges. Otherwise, clean and sound. 474 pgs. Pushkin Press. 2014. Seller Inventory # blue3aWORLD

Bibliographic Details

Title: The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis:

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 "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.

About the Author:

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was an Austrian novelist, journalist, biographer, and playwright prominent in the 1920s and 1930s. He is the author of several books, including the novels Beware of Pity and Confusion of Feelings and the biography Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan. Anthea Bell has translated many French, German, Danish, and Polish literary works into English. Her translations include Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoir The Pianist, W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, and numerous works of children's literature.