The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig, B. W. Huebsch, Helmut Ripperger

Overview

This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

The World of Yesterday, mailed to his publisher a few days before Stefan Zweig took his life in 1942, has become a classic of the memoir genre. Originally titled "Three Lives," the memoir describes Vienna of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, the world between the two world wars and the Hitler years.

Translated from the German by Benjamin W. Huebsch and Helmut Ripperger; with an introduction by Harry Zohn, 34 illustrations, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a new bibliography, by Randolph Klawiter, of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English.

"The best single memoir of Old Vienna by any of the city's native artists." -- Clive James

"A book that should be read by anyone who is even slightly interested in the creative imagination and the intellectual life, the brute force of history upon individual lives, the possibility of culture and, quite simply, what it meant to be alive between 1881 and 1942." -- The Guardian

"It is not so much a memoir of a life as it is the memento of an age." -- The New Republic

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012993946
Publisher:	Plunkett Lake Press
Publication date:	09/04/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Sales rank:	220,678
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was the most widely read German-language author of the twentieth century. Zweig was a secular Jew, a Pan-European and a pacifist. He was born in Vienna on November 28, 1881 and studied there and in Berlin. As a young man, he translated from French into German poetry by Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Verhaeren. He quickly branched out into journalism, fiction, biography and writing for the theater. His plays, including the anti-war Jeremiah, were produced throughout Europe. His books were eventually translated into over 50 languages. Today, he is best known for his many works of non-fiction. They include the classic memoir The World of Yesterday and many biographical essays on famous writers and thinkers such as Erasmus, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Freud and Mesmer. He lived in Salzburg with his first wife Friderike until 1933, when his books were burned by the Nazis. In 1934, he emigrated to England where he continued writing and met his second wife Lotte Altman. In 1940, the couple moved to Brazil where they committed suicide in 1942.