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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 March of the Masters, The Twenty-Four Hours of a Woman's Life, The Story of, The Restless Heart, and The World of Yesterday—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 went into exile in 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 interspersing 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.