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eBooks & Audiobooks by Stefan Zweig

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  • Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Series series
    Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Austria of Jewish parents. He was a prolific writer of biography, essays, and short stories. His wrote the anti-war play Jeremiah while in the army himself; it was staged in Switzerland in 1918. Scripture relates how the prophet Jeremiah warned that insurrection against Babylon under the auspices of Egypt would lead to the destruction of Jerusalem and its ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Chess

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The World of Yesterday (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Viennese Memoir of Fin de Siècle Europe, Exile, and the Collapse of a Lost Civilization

    by Stefan Zweig, Desmond Selbyne ...
    The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig's luminous memoir of European civilization before its catastrophic self-destruction. Written in an elegiac, lucid, and humane prose style, it reconstructs the intellectual and artistic life of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the confidence of the Habsburg order, the ferment of modernism, and the successive ruptures of two world wars. More than autobiography, it is a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beware of Pity

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    "Stefan Zweig's brilliant novel, Beware of Pity, is an original and powerful work."-The New York TimesThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician. Illustrated

    Eden Paul (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator)

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ...
    In Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician, Stefan Zweig crafts one of his most penetrating historical studies — a psychological biography of power, duplicity, and survival. With his unparalleled gift for portraying the inner motives behind historical events, Zweig turns his attention to Joseph Fouché (1759–1820), the enigmatic figure who served — and betrayed — every regime from the French ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The World of Yesterday

    A Memoir of Vienna, Exile, and Europe's Lost Golden Age

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig's elegiac memoir of Europe before and between the world wars, a civilization he portrays as cultivated, cosmopolitan, and fatally vulnerable. Written in lucid, humane prose, the book blends autobiography, cultural history, and moral testimony, moving from Vienna's fin-de-siècle salons to the catastrophe of nationalism and exile. Its style is reflective rather ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Post-Office Girl

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Joel Rotenberg ...
    Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The World of Yesterday

    Enriched edition. An Intimate Chronicle of a Vanished Era - Reflections on Cultural Decline, Political Upheaval, and the Human Experience

    by Stefan Zweig, Clarissa Pemberton ...
    In "The World of Yesterday," Stefan Zweig offers a poignant and reflective memoir that encapsulates the cultural and political landscape of Europe prior to the upheavals of the 20th century. Through his lyrical prose, Zweig paints a vivid portrait of an era marked by artistic flourishing and intellectual rigor, viewed through the lens of his own experiences. The work is imbued with a deep sense of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burning Secret

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The novella revolves around a sophisticated and manipulative relationship between three central characters: a young boy, his mother, and a charismatic stranger.Central Plot: The story is set in a European spa town and follows the interactions between a young boy, his mother, and a mysterious man who becomes entangled in their lives. The boy, while staying with his mother at the spa, becomes the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul Verlaine

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Series series
    The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths. And thus it is indelibly written in the face of Balzac, as Rodin has graven it, that the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful. He has shown that great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself. A ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Journey Into the Past

    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    by Stefan Zweig ...
    A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD