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Stefan Zweig (/ z w aɪ ɡ, s w aɪ ɡ / ZWYGHE, SWYGHE, [1] German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈtsvaɪk] ⓘ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
The first edition of The Royal Game. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of ...
Letter from an Unknown Woman (German: Der Brief einer Unbekannten, sometimes appearing without the definite article "der") is a novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The work first appeared in the 1 January 1922 issue of the Viennese Neuen Freien Presse , [ 1 ] before being published in book form as part of the collection Amok: Novellen ...
The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir [1] [2] [3] of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. [4] It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire . [ 5 ]
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The Post Office Girl (German: Rausch der Verwandlung, which roughly means The Intoxication of Transformation) is a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.It tells the story of Christine Hoflehner, a female post-office clerk in a small town near Vienna, Austria-Hungary, during the poverty-stricken years following World War I.
Maria Stuart is a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, written by Stefan Zweig and published in 1935. [1] It is presented as a tragedy (Dramatis personae at the head of the book). [citation needed] It was translated to English, albeit with radical changes, by husband and wife Eden and Cedar Paul in 1936. [2]
Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman. Composition history