Böcker av Stefan Zweig
Världen av i går : en europés minnen
(1 röst)Österrikaren Stefan Zweig (1881-1941) var en av sin tids mest uppburna författare, läst och beundrad världen över, tills den politiska situationen drev honom i landsflykt efter Hitlers maktövertagande och hans böcker förbjöds. På ett hotellrum i B...
Världen av i går
Österrikaren Stefan Zweig (1881-1941) var en av sin tids mest uppburna författare, läst och beundrad världen över, tills den politiska situationen drev honom i landsflykt efter Hitlers maktövertagande och hans böcker förbjöds. På ett hotellrum i B...
Chess
'...a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad'. A group of passengers on a cruise s...
Burning Secret
BURNING SECRET is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly brushes him aside to turn his seductive attentions to the boy's mother...
Chess - A Novel
On a cruise-ship, a passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer and will beat anyone, he says, but only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the ...
Journeys
'When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full ...
Amok and Other Stories: 'Amok'; 'The Star Above the Forest'; 'Leporella'; 'Incident on Lake Geneva'
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocr...
Die Welt von Gestern - Erinnerungen eines Europäers
Stefan Zweigs grandiose Lebenserinnerungen bewahren literarisch eine für immer untergegangene Welt - die Welt der Sicherheit, Schönheit und Heiterkeit in den Jahren vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, deren strahlende kulturelle Hauptstadt Wien wa...
Sternstunden Der Menschheit: 12 Historische Miniaturen - Zwölf historische Miniaturen.
Immer müssen Millionen müßiger Weltstunden verrinnen, ehe eine wahrhafthistorische, eine Sternstunde der Menschheit, in Erscheinung tritt. StefanZweig hat beispielhaft vierzehn von ihnen in einer aus der Malerei übernommenenFo...
Marie Antoinette - The Portrait of an Average Woman
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woma...
The Post Office Girl
Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in this 1930s tale of the boom and bust of capitalism, by one of Europe's most revered authors. Like Neil Tennant, we were bowled over by this deeply humane story about a post office girl offered a fleeting taste ...
Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters - New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42
This title presents the previously unpublished letters of a major twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig ...
Vienna Spring - Early Novellas & Stories
Set in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, these early works now published in English for the first time, show that from the beginning of his literary career, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was already a master of both the short story and his f...
Chess Story
"Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only st...
Post-Office Girl
Zweig's posthumously found novel, available in English for the first time, translated by Joel Rotenberg.
Journey Into the Past - A New York Review of Books Classic
A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, "Journey into the Past," published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig's papers after his death. Investigating the...
Journey into the Past
After nine years of separation from his native country because of the First World War, Louis finally sets foot in Austria and meets the woman he had been in love with and who had promised to wait for him. Previously divided by class and wealth, bo...
Fear
Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover's former mistress begins blackmailin...
Selected Stories - Fantastic Night, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Fowler Snared, The Invisible Collection, Buchmendel, 24hours in the Life of a Woman
<br><p>"Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilized, urbane, but never jaded or cynical."--"The Independent"<br><p>A new selection of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas: "Fantastic Night,"...
Mary Stuart
Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne of England, was condemned for treason and executed at the age of forty-four. A potential threat to the stability of the English Crown, she was held captive for twenty years b...
Beware of PIty
In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only n...
Magellan
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was kille...
The World of Yesterday
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 life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for future generations, T...
Le Voyage Dans Le Passe
Meistererzählungen
Stefan Zweig war ein Erzähler aus Leidenschaft. Leidenschaft - das ist auch das immer wiederkehrende Thema dieser meisterhaften Erzählungen, Leidenschaft, die schleichend die ganze Existenz zersetzt bis an (und zuweilen über) die Gr...
Angst
Lektüreschlüssel zu Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle
Die Welt von Gestern - Erinnerungen eines Europäers
Brief Einer Unbekannten
"Sehr dekorativ - ganz so, wie der Kinobesucher sich einen berühmten Schriftsteller vorstellen mag", wirkte Stefan Zweig auf die Schauspielerin und Kollegin Irmgard Keun, "weltmännisch, elegant, gepflegt und mit sanfter Me...
Der Kampf MIT Damon Holderlin Kleist Nietzsche - Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche
Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche - drei Außerordentliche, denen sich Stefan Zweig als »Psychologe aus Leidenschaft, Gestalter aus gestaltendem Willen« zutiefst verbunden fühlte. Unverstanden von ihrer Generation, enden alle drei »vorze...
