The world of yesterday : an autobiography / by Stefan Zweig ; introduction by Harry Zohn.

By: Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.

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BookPublisher: Lincoln [Neb.] ; London : University of Nebraska Press, 1964Description: xxiii, 455 p. : ports. ; 21 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0803252242 .Subject(s): Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 | Authors -- Austria -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 ZWE

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Born in Vienna, the prolific Zweig was a poet in his early years. In the 1920s, he achieved fame with the many biographies he wrote of famous people including Balzac, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Freud. Erasmus with whom he closely identified, was the subject of a longer biography. He also wrote the novellas Amok (1922) and The Royal Game (1944). As Nazism spread, Zweig, a Jew, fled to the United States and then to Brazil. He hoped to start a new life there, but the haunting memory of Nazism, still undefeated, proved too much for him. He died with his wife in a suicide pact. (Bowker Author Biography)