Stefan Zweig

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Stefan Zweig


Born
in Vienna, Austria
November 28, 1881

Died
February 22, 1942

Genre

Influences


Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu
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Average rating: 4.12 · 638,425 ratings · 62,141 reviews · 2,250 distinct worksSimilar authors
Chess Story

4.27 avg rating — 169,639 ratings — published 1942 — 266 editions
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Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

4.10 avg rating — 68,633 ratings — published 1922 — 53 editions
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Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirm...

3.89 avg rating — 41,327 ratings — published 1925 — 450 editions
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The World of Yesterday

4.51 avg rating — 29,084 ratings — published 1942 — 4 editions
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Korku

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Amok Koşucusu

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3.97 avg rating — 24,982 ratings — published 1922 — 459 editions
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Beware of Pity

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4.26 avg rating — 21,469 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions
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Olağanüstü Bir Gece

3.90 avg rating — 20,529 ratings — published 1922 — 126 editions
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Mendel el de los libros

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4.03 avg rating — 18,080 ratings — published 1929 — 17 editions
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Momentos estelares de la hu...

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Quotes by Stefan Zweig  (?)
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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

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“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

Polls

February 2018 New School Poll

 
  58 votes, 17.1%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 316 pages, 1926
 
  50 votes, 14.7%

 
  44 votes, 13.0%

 
  35 votes, 10.3%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956
 
  20 votes, 5.9%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920
 
  18 votes, 5.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  16 votes, 4.7%

 
  16 votes, 4.7%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  15 votes, 4.4%

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 405 pages, 1991
 
  15 votes, 4.4%

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 256 pages, 1952
 
  14 votes, 4.1%

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages, 1915
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, 530 pages, 1987
 
  10 votes, 2.9%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 216 pages, 1940
 
  8 votes, 2.4%

 
  8 votes, 2.4%

Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, 357 pages, 1933
 
  1 vote, 0.3%

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