Marie Antoinette

by Stefan Zweig

Overview

Mal wurde sie als Monster dargestellt, mal zur Heiligen stilisiert: An Marie Antoinette schieden sich je nach Gesinnung die Geister. Der Meister-Biograf Stefan Zweig hingegen zeichnet ein Bild eines „mittleren Charakters“.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783961501779
Publisher:	idb
Publication date:	11/10/2016
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	195
File size:	1 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Editorial Reviews

Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work.”
—The New Republic

“Stefan Zweig’s remarkable study of Marie Antoinette; A full-bodied biography which bids fair to be the definitive life of that tragic queen.”
—The New York Times

“The most influential biography of Marie Antoinette.”
—The Guardian

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