Shooting Stars by Stefan Zweig
Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig.
Gems of literary perfectionI felt I had seldom read such lucid, liquid prose Simon Winchester, Telegraph Shooting Stars forms part of an ambitious project by Pushkin Press to bring Zweig's work to the attention of the English-reading public, an enterprise that has been entirely successful. Zweigmania seems to break out with the publication of each book, with readers discovering his work by word-of-mouth and by accident. Guardian The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life Philosophy Football A source of great pleasure, even enlightenment Jewish Quarterly Pacey and animated The Herald
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782270508 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782270507 |
| Title | Shooting Stars |
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2015-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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