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    <body><![CDATA[ This book has some interesting chapters on the educational system in Austria during the Hapsburgs which is one of my favorite time and location periods due to the confluence of social restriction, aestheticism and hypocrisy. Later on, he narrates his beginnings as a writer and it soon gets pedantic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41615527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals details about the end of Zweig's life.<br/><br/>This wonderful, heartwrenching, elegiac memoir recreates the world of late 19th century and early 20th century Europe through the eyes of Stefan Zweig, virtually unremembered today, but in the period between t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25096425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zweig was one of the most praised writers and critics of his time with eyes always turned towards the next great writer and a nose primed for the center of the art scenes of the 1910s and 1920s. Zweig was Viennese, but the Nazi government forced him to be a Jew - and a refugee at that. He wrote this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10598574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I knew about history I know more deeply because of this book. Stefan Zweig is such a human and a really wonderful, natural writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a testament to Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. Definitely one of my favorites.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good atmpsphere of Europe on the eve of and during WW I and between the wars.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A poet, novelist, dramatist and biographer, Stephan Zweig (1881-1942) was a brilliant writer, documenting both historical lives and his own. Of his non-fiction The World of Yesterday is his personal memoir of growing up in fin de siecle Austria and the early years of the twentieth century. Written t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43281228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best book ever written about turn of the century europe ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At times a very fascinating look at the trajectory of European history from an age of security and stability (late 19th century / pre-WWI Austria) to an age of instability with the ascent of Hitler. Zweig witnessed first-hand the destruction of old Europe, and with it the notions of peace, dignity, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66612997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am still reading this book;extremely well written,but I believe,&quot;complex in nature&quot;This writing isn't for everyone.<br/>The Author/Autobiographer seems like a complex man-influenced and tormented by the happenings of the time perod between the end of the 19th Century,and just after WWII...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23313968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic book on turn of the century Vienna, this is a heart-felt memoir about Zweig's homeland, written from exile in Brazil in 1942.  This work is made more emotionally powerful with the knowledge that, after completing it, Zweig wrapped it up, mailed it to his publisher, and then he and his wife...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24056973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some people consider Zweig a pompous man, he does do a lot of name dropping and whatnot, however he is an amazing writer. This is a great autobiography that provides tremendous insight into the life of a European Jew in the lead up to the first world war.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend it to everybody who love the Mitteleuropean culture from before the First World War and in between wars. Lovely and declining atmosphere. You'd like it if you like Sándor Márai novels too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[possibly the most depressing book i'd read in a while. in fact, zweig killed himself after he finished it. but it's still fascinating! besides, it was 1943, so who wasn't killing themselves? ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit uneven and at times sentimental,but I can understand the author's nostalgy.<br/><br/>The world he knew was diminshed in such a lean period of time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[English is this fucker's second or third language and he still writes better than I...]]></body>
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