Yesterday's World: Memoirs of a European

Author: Stefan Zweig
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Stefan Zweig (1881—1942), a renowned Austrian novelist and biographer, was born into a wealthy Jewish family. His major works include The Triumphant Three, The Twenty-Four Hours a Woman Spent in Society, The Story of an Hour, The Restless Heart, and Yesterday and Tomorrow—Memoirs of a European. In his youth, he studied philosophy and literature in Vienna and Berlin. Later, he traveled the world, meeting figures like Romain Rolland and Auguste Rodin, and was influenced by them. During World War I, he engaged in anti-war activities and became a famous pacifist. In the 1920s, he traveled to the Soviet Union and met Maxim Gorky. In 1934, he was expelled by the Nazis and fled to Britain and Brazil. In 1942, he and his wife took their own lives in solitude and disillusionment. In this book, the author narrates with heartfelt sincerity and straightforward prose the various figures he knew during a specific period, the social and political events he personally experienced, his feelings about that turbulent era, and records the social reality of Europe from the eve of World War I to the European crisis of World War II. He reveals little-known anecdotes of famous cultural figures of the world, while also intertwining his own delicate inner thoughts. The author narrates with heartfelt sincerity and straightforward prose the various figures he knew during a specific period, the social and political events he personally experienced, his feelings about that turbulent era, and records the social reality of Europe from the eve of World War I to the European crisis of World War II.