Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of...

Fragment geblieben, begibt sich Stefan Zweig in Montaigne auf die Spuren eines Geistesverwandten, der einst, in ähnlich herausfordernder Lage wie Zweig selbst, seinen eigenen stoischen Umgang fand mit all der Grausamkeit um ihn herum, die Kriege mit sich bringen.

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...