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The Old-Book Peddler, and Other Tales for Bibliophiles. [By Stefan Zweig.] Translated by Theodore W. Koch
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Author: Caxton ClubThe Old-book Peddler and Other Tales for Bibliophiles
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Old Book Peddler and other tales for bibliophiles
Author: Stefan ZweigPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The World of Yesterday
Author: Stefan ZweigPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.
Balzac
Author: Stefan ZweigPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Zweig devoted ten years of research and writing to Balzac, which he regarded as his crowning achievement. This late work reads like a picaresque novel, with Balzac’s quest for “a woman with a fortune” and recurrent episodes of the author chasing an elusive pot of gold driving the story. This biography of one classic author by another is filled with Zweig’s characteristic psychological insights. He portrays the energy and “exuberance of imagination” that produced some two thousand characters in La comédie humaine, as well as the daily details of the coffee-chugging writer’s life, his manic writing schedule, method of correcting proofs, dealing with publishers and reviewers, signing contracts, doing marketing and publicity. Balzac blends biography and literary history in a highly readable volume that will teach you French cultural history as you laugh out loud. “[Balzac] is sure to entertain, instruct and charm ... It is a work of art, ... alive with the teeming life of its model ... It is true both to facts and to the more elusive psychological and spiritual truth of a man who ... has remained one of the most mysterious of great creators.” – Henri Peyre, Sterling professor of French Literature, Yale University, The New York Times
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The Book Collector's Packet
Author: The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
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The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche
Author: Stefan ZweigPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Stefan Zweig’s literary portraits of three tormented giants of German literature, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche, contrasts them with Goethe who was anchored in place by profession, home and family. For Zweig, “everyone whose nature excels the commonplace, everyone whose impulses are creative, wrestles inevitably with his daemon” which Zweig describes as “the incorporation of that tormenting leaven which impels our being ... towards danger, immoderation, ecstasy, renunciation and even self-destruction.” In these essays, Zweig depicts the tragic and sublime lifelong struggle by three great creative minds with their respective daemons.
Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History
Author: Stefan ZweigPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Stefan Zweig's Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History is the Austrian writer's account of how America got its name. This short, late work describes how Amerigo Vespucci, “a man of medium caliber [who] had never been entrusted with a fleet” gave his name to the New World because “of a combination of circumstances — through error, accident, and misunderstanding.” Zweig was living in exile in Brazil when he wrote Amerigo, shortly before committing suicide in despair over Hitler's conquest of Europe. “The paradox that Columbus discovered America but failed to recognize it, while Vespucci did not discover it but was the first to recognize it as a new continent,” he wrote, illustrates how “history will not be reasoned with.”