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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.
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The world of yesterday, Stefan Zweig
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- 2011
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stefan Zweig
- Publisher
- Univ. of Nebraska Press
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0803252242
- ISBN13
- 9780803252240
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, German Literature, Germany, 20th century, Society, 19th century, Europe, History of Europe, Austria, Cultural History, World War I (1914–1918), Vienna, Contemporary History, Writers, Austrian Literature, Exile, Austria-Hungary, 1st Half of the 20th Century, Pacifism, Last Book by the Author
- First published
- 1942
- Original title
- Die Welt von Gestern
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- 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.