About the Author

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 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. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas includingLetter from an Unknown Woman,AmokandFear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel,Beware of Pity,and his memoir,The World of Yesterday.He eventually settled 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.

Reviews

Gems of literary perfection. I felt I had seldom read such lucid, liquid prose -- Simon Winchester Telegraph The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life Philosophy Football Zweig writes lucidly and thrillingly Country Life