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Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher
the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a
war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as 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, its promise, and its devastating fall. A truthful and
passionate account of the horror that tore apart European culture,
The World of Yesterday gives us insight into the history of a world
brutally destroyed, written by a master at the height of his
literary talent.
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Beware of Pity (Paperback)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Anthea Bell
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'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' GUARDIAN 'An intoxicating, morally
shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' ALI
SMITH 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it
that I don't already know about this?' WES ANDERSON _______________
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the
twentieth century In 1913, young second lieutenant Hofmiller
discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was
lame when he asked her to dance-so begins a series of visits,
motivated by pity, which relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous
glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's unforgettable novel is a
devastating depiction of the betrayal of both honour and love, amid
the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Beware of Pity
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'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish,
fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take
any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have
thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that
living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening
his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery
but tragedy: a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows,
ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity... Beware of Pity is
Stefan Zweig's greatest novel, fiercely capturing human emotions in
all their subtleties and extremes - while Hofmiller, his
unforgettable, naïve creation, misunderstands everything,
resulting in his downfall. Translated by Jonathan Katz. Previously
published as Impatience of the Heart.
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Six Stories
Stefan Zweig
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Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean
liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains
himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game,
before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is
another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven
to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his
imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will
Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man's madness, The
Royal Game: a chess story is a searing examination of the power of
the mind and the evil it can do.
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Chess - A Novel (Hardcover)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Anthea Bell
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. A group of passengers on a cruise ship
challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they
crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger
in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan
Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic
depiction of obsession and the price of the past.
Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories
contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one
of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman , the
inspiration for a classic 1948 Hollywood film by Max Ophuls, as
well as three new stories, appearing in English for the first time.
A famous author receives a letter on his forty-first birthday. He
doesn't know the sender, but still the letter concerns him
intimately. Its story is earnest, even piteous: the story of a life
lived in service to an unannounced, unnoticed love. In the other
stories in this collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves
for her sister; two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart;
and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude. All four tales,
newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among
Zweig's most celebrated and compelling work-expertly paced, laced
with empathy and an unwaveringly acute sense of psychological
detail. Contents Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer
Unbekannten) A Story Told in Twilight (Geschichte in der Dammerung)
The Debt Paid Late (Die spat bezahlte Schuld) Forgotten Dreams
(Vergessene Traume) 'Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for
good... it's good to have him back ' - Salman Rushdie, The New York
Times 'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work.' -
Ali Smith, TLS Book of the Year 2008 Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was
born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied
in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator,
then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg
between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string
of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman,
Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to
London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later
moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of
the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left
Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he
and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of
his work is available from Pushkin Press.
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 join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort.
After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of
the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never
imagined.
But Christine's aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up,
and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office,
consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets
Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give
voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine's and
Ferdinand's lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a
plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an
unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the
masters of the psychological novel.
'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go
with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that
of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier
burden of fate than almost any other in the course of history.'
During his lifetime, Stefan Zweig's (1881-1942) works were
immensely popular and widely translated. In the decades after his
death, he was largely forgotten in the English-speaking world.
Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of interest in
this singular author, and Pushkin Press has been at the forefront
of this movement. The World of Yesterday, Zweig's memoir, was
completed shortly before his suicide. It charts the history of
Europe from nineteenth-century splendour, decadence and
complacency, through the devastation of the First World War, to the
resultant brutality and depravity of the Nazi regime. The World of
Yesterday is a heartfelt tribute to an age of humanity and
enlightenment that Zweig feared was lost for ever. An incomparable
record of a lost era, this is also essential reading for those who
have already fallen in love with Zweig's fiction. 'One of the
canonical European testaments... [Zweig's] life and work tell of
the perilous flimsiness of our world of security - a message that
many insistently deny, but somehow need to hear' John Gray, New
Statesman 'One of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century'
David Hare 'Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good...
it's good to have him back' Salman Rushdie, The New York Times 'One
of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of
Stefan Zweig's stories' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the
Amber Eyes 'Zweig deserves to be famous again, and for good' Times
Literary Supplement 'Indispensable' The Times
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Confusion (Paperback)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Anthea Bell
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Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational
teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning.
When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his
wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also
senses his mentor pulling away from him - sometimes even seeming to
hate him. But the truth about these feelings is something that will
shape both men for the rest of their lives.
Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a
trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of
different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the
world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at
fairly long intervals, their essential uniformity has prompted
Zweig to bring these three great novelists of the nineteenth
century together; to show them as writers who, for the very reason
that they contrast with each other, also complete one another in
ways which makes them round our concept of the epic portrayers of
the world. Zweig considers Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky the
supremely great novelists of the nineteenth century. He draws
between the writer of one outstanding novel, and what he terms a
true novelist--an epic master, the creator of an almost unending
series of pre-eminent romances. The novelist in this higher sense
is endowed with encyclopedic genius, is a universal artist, who
constructs a cosmos, peopling it with types of his own making,
giving it laws of gravity that are unique to these fi gures. Each
of the novelists featured in Zweig's book has created his own
sphere: Balzac, the world of society; Dickens, the world of the
family; Dostoevsky, the world of the One and of the All. A
comparison of these spheres serves to prove their diff erences.
Zweig does not put a valuation on the differences, or emphasize the
national element in the artist, whether in a spirit of sympathy or
antipathy. Every great creator is a unity in himself, with its own
boundaries and specifi c gravity. There is only one specifi c
gravity possible within a single work, and no absolute criterion in
the sales of justice. This is the measure of Zweig, and the message
of this book.
In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the
very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp
observation, understanding and vivid empathy. A knock on a door
that forces a whole community to take flight, an aging womaniser
who meets his match, a love soured into awful cruelty-these stories
present a master at work, at the top of his form. Translated by the
award-winning Anthea Bell
This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds
a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual
portraits selected from among its most representative and
influential figures. In "Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche, " Zweig
concentrates on three giants of German literature to portray the
artist and thinker as a figure possessed by a powerful inner vision
at odds with the materialism and scientific positivism of his time,
in this case, the nineteenth century. Zweig's subjects here are
respectively a lyric poet, a dramatist and writer of novellas, and
a philosopher. Each led an unstable life ending in madness and/or
suicide and not until the twentieth century did each make their
full impact. Whereas the nineteenth-century novel is socially
capacious in terms of subject and audience, the three figures
treated here are prophets or forerunners of modernist ideas of
alienation and exile. Holderlin and Kleist consciously opposed the
worldly harmoniousness of Goethe's classicism in favor of a
visionary inwardness and dramatization of the subjective psyche.
Nietzsche set himself as a destroyer and rebuilder of philosophy
and critic of the degradation of the German spirit through
nationalism and militarism. Zweig's choice of subjects reflects a
division in his own soul. The image of Goethe recurs here as the
ultimate upholder of Zweig's own ideals: scientist and artist,
receptive to world culture, supremely rational and prudent. Yet
Zweig was aware that Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche were more
daring explorers of the dangerous and destructive aspects of man
that needed to be seen and comprehended in the clarifying light of
poetry and philosophy.
Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in
a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of
different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the
world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at
fairly long intervals, their essential uniformity has prompted
Zweig to bring these three great novelists of the nineteenth
century together; to show them as writers who, for the very reason
that they contrast with each other, also complete one another in
ways which makes them round our concept of the epic portrayers of
the world.
Zweig considers Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky the supremely
great novelists of the nineteenth century. He draws between the
writer of one outstanding novel, and what he terms a true
novelist--an epic master, the creator of an almost unending series
of pre-eminent romances. The novelist in this higher sense is
endowed with encyclopedic genius, is a universal artist, who
constructs a cosmos, peopling it with types of his own making,
giving it laws of gravity that are unique to these fi gures.
Each of the novelists featured in Zweig's book has created his
own sphere: Balzac, the world of society; Dickens, the world of the
family; Dostoevsky, the world of the One and of the All. A
comparison of these spheres serves to prove their diff erences.
Zweig does not put a valuation on the differences, or emphasize the
national element in the artist, whether in a spirit of sympathy or
antipathy. Every great creator is a unity in himself, with its own
boundaries and specifi c gravity. There is only one specifi c
gravity possible within a single work, and no absolute criterion in
the sales of justice. This is the measure of Zweig, and the message
of this book.
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Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
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From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary
Stuart spent her life embroiled in power struggles that shook the
foundations of Renaissance Europe. Revered by some as the rightful
Queen of England, reviled by others as a murderous adultress, her
long and fascinating rivalry with her cousin Elizabeth I led
ultimately to her downfall. This classic biography, by one of the
most popular writers of the twentieth century, breathes life into
the character of one of history's most remarkable women, and turns
her tale into a story of passion and plotting as gripping as any
novel.
This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds
a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual
portraits selected from among its most representative and
influential figures. In Hoelderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche, Zweig
concentrates on three giants of German literature to portray the
artist and thinker as a figure possessed by a powerful inner vision
at odds with the materialism and scientific positivism of his time,
in this case, the nineteenth century.Zweig's subjects here are
respectively a lyric poet, a dramatist and writer of novellas, and
a philosopher. Each led an unstable life ending in madness and/or
suicide and not until the twentieth century did each make their
full impact. Whereas the nineteenth-century novel is socially
capacious in terms of subject and audience, the three figures
treated here are prophets or forerunners of modernist ideas of
alienation and exile. Hoelderlin and Kleist consciously opposed the
worldly harmoniousness of Goethe's classicism in favor of a
visionary inwardness and dramatization of the subjective psyche.
Nietzsche set himself as a destroyer and rebuilder of philosophy
and critic of the degradation of the German spirit through
nationalism and militarism.Zweig's choice of subjects reflects a
division in his own soul. The image of Goethe recurs here as the
ultimate upholder of Zweig's own ideals: scientist and artist,
receptive to world culture, supremely rational and prudent. Yet
Zweig was aware that Hoelderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche were more
daring explorers of the dangerous and destructive aspects of man
that needed to be seen and comprehended in the clarifying light of
poetry and philosophy.
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Montaigne (Paperback)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Will Stone
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'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 make sense of his own
life and his obsessions-with personal freedom, with the sanctity of
the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also,
finally, lead Zweig to his death. With the intense psychological
acuity and elegant prose so characteristic of Zweig's fiction, this
account of Montaigne's life asks how we ought to think, and how to
live. It is an intense and wonderful insight into both subject and
biographer.
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Magellan (Paperback, None)
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Cedar Paul, Eden Paul
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The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond
the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first
man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the
first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en
route in a battle with natives in the Phillipines. In this
biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery by telling the
tale of one of the era's most daring adventurers. In typically
flowing and elegant prose he takes us on a fascinating journey of
discovery ourselves. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna,
into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and
Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a
biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the
wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely
popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and
Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where
he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath,
taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World
War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New
York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were
found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is
available from Pushkin Press.
'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as allthe
books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance
bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately lovedthis book, his
one, big, great novel-and suddenly there weredozens more in front
of me waiting to read.' Wes Anderson The Society of the Crossed
Keys contains Wes Anderson's selections from the writings of the
great Austrian author Stefan Zweig, whose life and work inspired
The Grand Budapest Hotel. A CONVERSATION WITH WES ANDERSON Wes
Anderson discusses Zweig's life and work with Zweig biographer
George Prochnik. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY Selected extracts from
Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, an unrivalled evocation of
bygone Europe. BEWARE OF PITY An extract from Zweig's only novel, a
devastating depictionof the torment of the betrayal of both honour
and love. TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN One of Stefan
Zweig's best-loved stories in full-a passionate tale of gambling,
love and death, played out against the stylish backdrop of the
French Riviera in the 1920s. "I defy anyone to read these tasters
of Zweig's work without being compelled to read on. Pushkin might
as well do their readers all a favour and sell The Society of the
Crossed Keys with a complete Zweig back catalogue." Independent
'The World of Yesterday is one of the greatest memoirs of the
twentieth century, as perfect in its evocation of the world Zweig
loved, as it is in its portrayal of how that world was destroyed.'
-- David Hare 'Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever
read...a feverish, fascinating novel' -- Antony Beevor 'One of the
joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan
Zweig's stories.'--Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the
Amber Eyes Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna. He studied in
Berlin and Vienna and, between the wars was an international
bestselling author. With the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and
lived in London, Bath, New York and Brazil, where in 1942 he and
his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Wes
Anderson's films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal
Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr
Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom. He directed and wrote the screenplay for
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Journey Into The Past (Paperback)
Anthea Bell; Stefan Zweig; Preface by Paul Bailey; Translated by Anthea Bell
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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 Clare Skeats as part of
a new range of Stefan Zweig paperbacks. Kept away for nine years by
the First World War Ludwig has finally returned home, reunited at
last with the woman he had so passionately loved, and who had
promised to wait for him. Previously divided by wealth and class,
both are now married and much changed by their experiences.
Confronted with an uncertain future, and still haunted by the past,
they discover whether their love has survived hardships, betrayals,
and the lapse of time. Zweig's long-lost final novella- recently
discovered in manuscript form-is a poignant examination of the
angst of nostalgia and the fragility of love.. 'Journey into the
Past is vintage Stefan Zweig lucid, tender, powerful and
compelling.' - Chris Schuler, Independent 'Zweig belongs with three
very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of
the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov.'
- Paul Bailey Translated from the German by Anthea Bell, Stefan
Zweig's Journey into the Past is published by Pushkin Press. Stefan
Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy
Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was
first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig
travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an
international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas
including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934,
with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his
only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking
British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War.
With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York,
before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found
dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available
from Pushkin Press.
When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko
Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow
passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him,
but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes
and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw.
When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on
the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his
formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and
psychological torment unfolds. Stefan Zweig's last and most famous
story, 'A Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and
explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe
following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here
in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master
storyteller's most acclaimed novellas: Twenty-four Hours in the
Life of a Woman, The Invisible Collection and Incident on Lake
Geneva.
Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful
elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly
interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European
cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or celebrated
here cast a long spiritual shadow over Zweig's own writing life:
Verhaeren, Rolland, Nietzsche, Roth, Mahler, Rilke and Freud.
Zweig's farewells, souvenirs and declarations of gratitude
demonstrate his ardent pan-Europeanism and rich friendships across
borders. Elegant and haunting, these tributes are a monument to his
reverence for the arts and his belief in the sacredness of
individualism.
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