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Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassi ...Show more
Fantastic Night: Tales of Longing and Liberation by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite passio ...Show more
Fear by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: near fine
A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehension Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a r ...Show more
Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Millions of people in a nation are necessary for a single genius to arise, millions of tedious hours must pass before a truly historic shooting star of humanity appears in the sky. Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Discovery of the Pacific to the c ...Show more
Journey Into the Past by Stefan Zweig
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, "Journey into the Past," published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig's papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything--time, war, bet ...Show more
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Cla ...Show more
Journeys by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continen ...Show more
Letter From an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Oph ls and starring Joane Fontaine.Elsewhere in ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig; Eden Paul (Translator); Cedar Paul (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots. From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power stru ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: History
'Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.' As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passio ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him ...Show more