Stefan Zweig
Author profile
born
in Vienna, Austria
November 28, 1881
died
February 22, 1942
genre
influences
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Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay — published 1941 — 72 editions |
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Beware of Pity
by Stefan Zweig, Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt — published 1939 — 44 editions |
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig, Harry Zohn — published 1942 — 42 editions |
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Amok and Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell — published 1922 — 7 editions |
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The Post-Office Girl
— published 1982 — 19 editions |
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul , Cedar Paul — published 1932 — 42 editions |
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Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme
— published 1925 — 35 editions |
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La Confusion des sentiments
— published 1926 — 26 editions |
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Brief einer Unbekannten
— published 1922 — 24 editions |
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Marie Stuart
— published 1935 — 28 editions |
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“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold, calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation. Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing, nourishing, inspiring source of life.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
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