BOOKS by Stefan Zweig

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1	The world of yesterday an autobiography more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that ... see all copies from £7.48! new only from £11.37! \| first editions
2	Chess Story more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg (Translator), Professor Peter Gay (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship ... see all copies from £4.83! new only from £4.83! \| first editions
3	Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Stefan Zweig Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, amp lt J The Viking Press - Publishers NewYork 935 ... aClil, I-nir, f. j amp lt Q iuJ jJft. illffli. tfC amp gt ifllSfti fiStok rfS ffl amp gt i n Jiftfi nlfii j KAftXA WTO-AIT oomioin 1 1935 BY vntAC MAKY QUEIN OF SCOTMN0 AND THE COPYJaOHT 1935 BY THE DIKING IMC ... see all copies from £4.99! new only from £19.76! \| first editions
4	Beware of pity more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Stefan Zweig's only novel was written while he was in exile from Germany, living in London in 1938. It is an object lesson on the topic of pity, a subtle psychological analysis of its implications that resonates with the political ills of the time. The main action is set in 1914, in the months leading up to World War I. Pushed on by circumstances ... see all copies from £3.12! new only from £6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Post-Office Girl more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg (Translator) add to wishlist The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.17!
6	Burning Secret more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist A lonely twelve-year-old is befriended and is infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. When his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother, the boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable. This title is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920s. see all copies from £4.07! new only from £5.81! \| first editions
7	Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator) add to wishlist The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ... see all copies from £5.33! new only from £5.33!
8	Erasmus of Rotterdam more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £6.86! first editions
9	Marie Antoinette more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £1.84! new only from £27.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Amok and Other Stories more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator) add to wishlist A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death; and a First World War POW longing to be home again ... see all copies from £5.01! new only from £5.01!
11	World of Yesterday more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist "The autobiography of the internationally famous biographer and dramatist is a chronicle of three ages: the golden days of Vienna that ended with Word War I; that war and its aftermath; and the Hitler years. The three ages do come to life in Zweig's book."--Publishers Weekly see all copies from £14.30! new only from £18.69! \| first editions
12	Royal Game and Other Stories more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £5.39! first editions
13	Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £1.71! new only from £4.09! \| signed copies
14	Conqueror of the Seas - The Story of Magellan more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £19.23! \| first editions
15 view cover	Fantastic Night and Other Stories more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator) add to wishlist Five 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 ... see all copies from £90.87!
16 view cover	Balzac more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Este libro monumental, publicado por primera vez en 1920, no es solo la obra maestra de Stefan Zweig, la mejor demostracion posible del fervor que sentia por el gran Honore de Balzac, sino tambien una novela fascinante que descubre al lector no solo el trabajo, la lucha, el esfuerzo y el desafio del genio, sino tambien sus debilidades. Tras esta ... see all copies from £1.49! new only from £26.32! \| first editions
17 view cover	The royal game more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist "The Royal Game" crackles with suspense; it is the story of a man who outwits the Gestapo and finds the courage to go on living. Whilst in prison, he finds sanctuary in "imaginary" chess, but later on engages in a confrontation with the chess prodigy of the day. see all copies from £7.92! new only from £12.09! \| first editions
18 view cover	Marie Antoinette : the portrait of an average woman more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman" is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £11.07! \| first editions
19	Ungeduld Des Herzens by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £4.49! new only from £8.28! \| first editions
20	Verwirrung Der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £13.71! new only from £15.34!
21	Maria Stuart more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £1.67! new only from £11.05! \| first editions
22 view cover	Twilight: Moonbeam Alley more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator) add to wishlist "Twilight" is the story of a fashionable lady who is banished from Versailles by the king. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she entertains lovers and friends from Paris, she comes to find it intolerable. Life at court, for all its essential emptiness, was the only thing that gave her existence meaning, and ... see all copies from £4.19! new only from £7.87!
23 view cover	Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Cedar Paul (Translator) add to wishlist Casanova, 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 ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £9.38!
24 view cover	Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £13.94! \| first editions
25	Maria Antonieta more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist see all copies from £10.34! new only from £13.71!

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