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Fantastic Night: Tales of Longing and Liberation by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite passio ...Show more
Fear by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: near fine
A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehension Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a r ...Show more
Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Millions of people in a nation are necessary for a single genius to arise, millions of tedious hours must pass before a truly historic shooting star of humanity appears in the sky. Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Discovery of the Pacific to the c ...Show more
Impatience of the Heart by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The most exciting book I have ever read ...a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything ...Show more
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Cla ...Show more
Journeys by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continen ...Show more
Letter From an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Oph ls and starring Joane Fontaine.Elsewhere in ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig; Eden Paul (Translator); Cedar Paul (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots. From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power stru ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
19.99 AUD
Category: Popular History
'Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.' As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passio ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A dazzling, tour de force biography of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.
Shooting Stars: 10 Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Popular History
Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig "Such dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date, a single hour, even just a single minute, rarely occur in everyday life, and only rarely in the course of history." One of t ...Show more