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Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It is an unusually humane account of Europe from the closing years of the 19th century through to World War II, seen through the eyes of one of the most famous writers of his era.

In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.

Mit seiner historischen Hellsicht, dem Intellekt einer Herzensbildung und einem die Wissenschaft weit übersteigenden Einfühlungsvermögen, beleuchtet Zweig mit der Lebensbeschreibung des Erasmus wie in einem Brennglas einen Kulminationspunkt der Menschheitsgeschichte; eine historische Wegscheide, deren Auswirkungen bis heute unser Leben prägt. Eine ganz andere Möglichkeit der Reformation stellt er mit der Schilderung der Antipoden Erasmus von Rotterdam und Martin Luther vor. Aus Charakteren wie sie unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten, erwachsen völlig unterschiedliche Kulturen.

With the age of voyages of discovery in the 15th century, the curtain of history slowly came down on the late Middle Ages. Portuguese and Spanish seafarers set out to remeasure the dimensions of the earth. Numerous spices and fruits, which we would hardly be able to do without today, found their way to Europe for the first time. Columbus discovered America in 1492 on his quest for India. Six years later, it was left to Vasco da Gama to travel through the sea route to India sought by Columbus on the eastern route around Africa.

A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth century by one of the most widely read German-language authors of the twentieth century. In this vivid and eloquent biography, Zweig largely eschews the traditional academic discourse on the philosopher's work, instead concentrating entirely on Nietzsche as a person, his habits, his passions and his obsessions. Stefan Zweig describes the tragedy of Nietzsche's existence, his seclusion from the world, in self-imposed isolation, in a compelling and impressive way.

Der zwölfjährige Edgar ist mit seiner Mutter in den Urlaub gefahren. Schnell freundet er sich mit einem männlichen Gast an, den er bewundert. Doch schon bald merkt er, dass das Interesse des Herrn gar nicht ihm gilt, sondern seiner Mutter... Eine fabelhafte Erzählung Zweigs, aus der Perspektive eines Kindes geschrieben, das an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden steht - und lernen wird, dass das Leben auch große Enttäuschungen parat hält.

De la amplia obra de Stefan Zweig, celebrada por generaciones de lectores alrededor del mundo, quizá sus biografías son las que mejor dan muestra de la destreza del escritor para el retrato, de su agudeza psicológica y de la profunda comprensión del alma humana.

According to Stefan Zweig, no contemporary author, not even Marx or Nietzsche, delivered the radical spiritual shock that Tolstoy's works gave millions and millions of people around the world. But which Tolstoy are we talking about? For Zweig it is the essayist Tolstoy, the radical thinker and incorruptible anarchist. The Tolstoy who claims that the state is the great cover-up of social injustice through a complex system of violence based on parliaments, prisons, judges, tax collectors, the police and armies.

The fame of the The Royal Game is evident in the number of translations. The last work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig can be read today in over 60 languages. The first translation into English appeared in New York in 1944. In Germany, the book has become a constant bestseller. The first-person narrator learns of the presence of the world chess champion Mirko Czentovic on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires. Together with his acquaintance Mc Connor and other chess players, the first-person narrator manages to challenge the world champion to a game of chess.

"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First World War, he went searching for alternative forms of society, which culminated in a journey through the at that time still young Soviet Union.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Der Spiegel des Cyprianus" (Storm), "Novelle" (Goethe), "Michael Kohlhaas" (Kleist), "Traumnovelle" (Schnitzler), "William Wilson" (Poe), "Ein Glücklicher" (Tschechow), "Wie eine schöne und tugendsame Frau zur Hure gemacht werden sollte" (Balzac), "Lösche den Funken, ehe er zur Flamme wird" (Tolstoi), "24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau" (Zweig), "Die Büste des Kaisers" (Roth).

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but from an awareness of his inadequacy. He thus reveals a level of critical self-reflection that, before his time, was rarely put on paper.

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but from an awareness of his inadequacy. He thus reveals a level of critical self-reflection that, before his time, was rarely put on paper.

In this book, Stefan Zweig traces 12 fateful events of world history in his unique artistic style: from the conquest of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople by the Turks, to the Battle of Waterloo to Sir Robert Falcon Scott's tragic South Pole expedition. The human character and sometimes simple fate are decisive historic factors that have led to dramatic and lasting changes in the past. Often short, coincidental and highly dramatic moments have the potential to change the future of mankind in a decisive manner – the so called "Great Moments of Humanity".

Stefan Zweig, reconocido como uno de los mayores biógrafos de todos los tiempos, examina con su habitual perspicacia y sutileza la vida y obra de tres grandes escritores, y queda fascinado por la lucidez de Tolstói, la imparcialidad de Casanova y la ambigüedad de Stendhal.

Der junge Student Roland führt ein ausschweifendes Leben in Berlin – bis der Vater nicht mehr mitspielt: Er wird in die Provinz geschickt. An der dortigen Uni lernt er einen Philologie-Professor kennen, zu dem er ein immer engeres Verhältnis entwickelt. Aber auch die Frau des Lehrers trägt dazu bei, die Gefühlswelt des Studenten in immer tiefere Verwirrung zu bringen... Diese Novelle aus dem Jahre 1927 wurde mehrmals verfilmt.

Stefan Zweig war nicht nur meisterhafter Novellist, er schrieb auch ungeheuer lesenswerte biographische Miniaturen. Im Werk "Der Kampf mit dem Dämon" erzählt er von drei Autoren, deren Genialität sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns brachte – und darüber hinaus. In diesem Hörbuch geht es um den Philosophen Friedrich Nietzsche, dessen Innerstes Zweig freilegt, als sei die Feder ein Skalpell.

Stefan Zweig war nicht nur meisterhafter Novellist, er schrieb auch ungeheuer lesenswerte biographische Miniaturen. Im Werk "Die Heilung durch den Geist" erzählt er von drei Autoren, deren Heilmethoden spirituell-analytischer Art waren. In diesem Hörbuch geht es um den Begründer der Psychoanalyse, Sigmund Freud. In einer biographischen Ideengeschichte wird uns der geniale Forscher von einem genialen Autoren nähergebracht. Unnachahmlich.

Mit den Erinnerungen eines Europäers hat Stefan Zweig seine persönliche, zugleich eine der besten Analysen der Jahrzehnte zwischen dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert und dem 2. Weltkrieg verfasst.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Die Verwandlung" (F. Kafka), "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" (E. T. A. Hoffmann), "Der böse Knabe" (A. Tschechow), "Der Untergang der Carnatic" (A. J. Mordtmann), "Julie Romain" (G. de Maupassant), "Die schöne Wäscherin von Pontillon" (H. de Balzac), "Der Mann in Frauenkleidern" (G. Boccaccio), "Eine Geschichte aus Jerusalem" (S. Lagerlöf), "Die unsichtbare Sammlung" (S. Zweig), "Stationschef Fallmerayer" (J. Roth).