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Title: World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 0-8032-5224-2 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1964 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Why did nobody ever tell me about this book?
Comment: By far the most poignant book I have ever read (and I read a lot.) Every impression and observation has a heightened importance when you know the author and his wife both killed themselves not long after the book was published during the worst years of WWII. Brilliantly recreates the pre-WWI Europe that disappeared after 1914 and is only now maybe being recreated in an updated style. Wonderfully describes the tumultuous years between the wars and demonstrates the despair of the worst years of WWII. Also where else can you read good things about the AustroHungarian Empire these days? Would highly recommend this book for anyone between the ages of 10 and 100. Why don't they use books like this in high school and college history classes to make the past come alive? Also enjoyable because it tells things like they were at the time before 50 years of revisionist and deconstructed history have twisted everything around. The real tragedy of this story is that Mr. Zweig and his wife did not wait another 18 months before killing themselves. They may not have found it necessary once the Allies started defeating the Axis powers in Europe and the Pacific. Still Mr. Zweig's World of Yesterday was irreparably destroyed and would never return.
Rating: 4
Summary: A sensitive and intelligent view of 20th century Europe
Comment: This book puts you behind the observant eyes and inside the thoughtful mind of a man who lived very much in the world -- the world being that of Europe in the first half of the 20th century..
An Austrian Jew born in late 19-century Vienna, Stefan Zweig came of age in a city that was the capital of a centuries-old empire and one of the cultural centers of Europe. He died by his own hand 61 years later in exile from a Europe in the grip of Hitler's savagery. Through his astute and urbane eyes we see the optimism of pre-World War I Europe, the division of Europe into two hostile sides during World War I, the collapse of the German and Austrian economies between the wars, and the rise of Hitler. Zweig was a pacifist. During World War I, he and his friends (most notably the French author Romain Rolland) met in neutral Swtizerland to publish a dissident journal which they hoped would transcend the government propaganda that labeled nationals of the opposing countries as "the enemy." Nonetheless, he recognized that the rise of the Nazis was something very different and had to be opposed.
Zweig was a well-known and popular author before the Nazis banned his writings. His many books and plays were translated into 30 languages. Sadly he is almost unknown today. This book is a wonderful introduction to a man who must have adorned any group fortunate enough to have him as a participant.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply wonderful
Comment: It is one of the best books I have ever read. Unfortunately, some people trying to get some knowledge about the history of that time, are not satisfied with this book. But, it is NOT A HISTORY BOOK.
Zweig is not trying to give information about those times. His observations are not his object but his tools to illustrate his great humanistic messages; and he does this in a very kind and as simple as powerful language.
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Title: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1901285480 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Great Grove Lives) by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ISBN: 0802139094 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1901285499 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Casanova by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ISBN: 1901285189 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton ISBN: 0306810212 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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