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The World of Yesterday - An Autobiography: Classic Translation by Helmut Ripperger and B.W. Huebsch
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It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries.
This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War. Zweig, an Austrian Jew born and raised in Vienna in 1881, pays a haunting tribute to his vanished nation in this memoir, completed just before his death. He o...