Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history
Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work The New Republic Excellent biography The New York Times 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
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906548308 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906548307 |
| Title | Marie Antoinette |
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2010-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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