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"I just want to talk to you, tell you everything for the first time. You should know my whole life, which was always yours even though you never knew it. But only you will know my secret, when I'm dead and you no longer...

This book mixes impressions of Viennese and European life before the World War I with Zweig's personal recollections and detailed anecdotes. It chronicles the final days of Austria-Hungary under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, including the educational system and sexual morals of the...

The factors that change the course of history are primarily the product of the contributions made by individual lives to the broad pattern of mortal existence. In his collection of 'historical miniatures,' Stefan Zweig celebrates the monumental power of the spirit to discover, to...

These memoirs, written during his exile and following the news of the disaster caused by the Nazi regime, are both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence,...

The Eyes of the Eternal Brother is a rarity within Stefan Zweig’s work, a jewel different from the rest of the famous author’s writings that will undoubtedly delight readers with his brilliant style. It is a novel, set in India in the times before...

This is probably Stefan Zweig's most famous book. In it he brings to its peak the art of historical and literary miniature. Very varied are the events that he brings together under the title of "Stellar Moments": the decline of the Eastern empire, in...

Stefan Zweig, one of the best writers in European literature, heir to the refined and elegant prose of the 19th century, delights us his Decisive Moments in History, a book for all kinds of readers that instructs and delights in equal measure. A great...

With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the...

Stefan Zweig, recognized as one of the greatest biographers of all time, examines with his usual insight and subtlety the lives and works of three great writers, fascinated by Tolstoy's lucidity, Casanova's impartiality, and Stendhal's ambiguity. He considers all three "poets of their lives"...