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Departures
Other Press 2011; US$ 14.95Departures is Paul Zweig’s celebration of life and love. Zweig thought of himself as a sojourner, a contemporary Wandering Jew, a man with “a loose wire in his genes.” He led a number of distinct lives: as a Jewish child in Brooklyn and on a farm in the Catskills; as a literature student at Columbia; as a young exile who spent a... more...
Magellan
Pushkin Press 2011; US$ 10.19The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480?1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history?he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines. In this biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery... more...
Fantastic Night
Pushkin Press 2004; US$ 10.19Five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in this powerful volume. Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and give... more...
Marie Antoinette
Pushkin Press 2010; US$ 10.19Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France when still a teenager, on her correspondence with both her mother and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyses the chemistry of a woman?s soul, from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history.... more...
Casanova
Pushkin Press 2007; US$ 10.19Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth-which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself-is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig. As Zweig describes in this volume: ?Imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who have biographies are... more...
Mary Stuart
Pushkin Press 2011; US$ 10.19A gripping biography of the doomed Scottish queen, who spent her life embroiled in the power struggles of Renaissance Europe. more...
The Struggle with the Daemon
Pushkin Press 2012; US$ 10.19The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Hošlderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche ? powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled... more...
Journey into the Past
Pushkin Press 2009; US$ 10.19Separated for nine years by the First World War Ludwig has finally returned home to meet the woman he so passionately loved, and who had promised to wait for him. But circumstances have changed ... Confronted with an uncertain future, and still haunted by the past, together they will discover whether their love has survived hardships, betrayals,... more...
Selected Stories
Pushkin Press 2009; US$ 10.19Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman Letter from an Unknown Woman Fantastic Night The Fowler Snared The Invisible Collection Buchmendel Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening at the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerised by the obsessive... more...
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