Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (28 Nov 1881 – 22 Feb 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920
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Stefan Zweig (28 Nov 1881 – 22 Feb 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; published in English in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures). He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929) Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932), among others. Zweig's best-known fiction includes Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922) Amok (1922) Fear (1925), Confusion of Feelings (1927), Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927), the psychological novel Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity, 1939) and The Royal Game (1941).
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