The Royal Game And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Stefan, Zweig

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Modern Classics / Penguin Books Ltd

The Burning Secret & Other Stories

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

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.

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (Cassell biographies)

Cassell

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 Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history."Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic"Excellent biography." -- The New York Times

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

This collection of short stories by a major German writer of the twentieth century includes Fear, Amok, The Burning Secret, The Royal Game, and Letter From an Unknown Woman

The Royal Game and Other Stories

Classics

Random House Value Publishing

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 Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. "Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic "Excellent biography." -- The New York Times

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Power & Personality Series)

Historical

Dust jacket notes: "After the Austrian poet Hugo von Hoffmansthal, who had been his librettist for many years, died in 1929, Richard Strauss resigned himself to admitting 'that my period of creating operas has come to a close.' But several years later the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig offered to prepare a libretto and soon they were deep into a warm and fruitful artistic collaboration leading to the creation of Die schweigsame Frau, first performed in Dresden in 1935. This small book records their relationship from Zweig's first polite and deferential letter offering to present a musical project to the famous composer to Strauss's last letter, intercepted by the Gestapo, in which he boldly writes that he will 'never, ever' forego working with his Jewish librettist."

A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Arts & Photography

RICHARD STRAUSS

Music

University of California Press

Amerigo : A Comedy of Errors in History

Literary

Viking Press

Castellion Contre Calvin Ou Conscience Contre Violence (Texte Francais d'Alzir Hella)

Editions Bernard Grasset

Schachnovelle

BERMANN FISCHER VERLAG

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