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Stefan Zweig


Born
in Vienna, Austria
November 28, 1881

Died
February 22, 1942

Genre

Influences


Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu
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Average rating: 4.11 · 715,118 ratings · 72,543 reviews · 2,598 distinct worksSimilar authors
Chess Story

4.26 avg rating — 194,206 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions
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Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

4.08 avg rating — 79,879 ratings — published 1922 — 25 editions
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Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirm...

3.89 avg rating — 45,608 ratings — published 1925 — 61 editions
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The World of Yesterday

4.51 avg rating — 32,394 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions
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Korku

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4.11 avg rating — 31,693 ratings — published 1910 — 219 editions
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Amok Koşucusu

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3.96 avg rating — 26,671 ratings — published 1922 — 36 editions
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Beware of Pity

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4.27 avg rating — 24,457 ratings — published 1939 — 363 editions
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Olağanüstü Bir Gece

3.89 avg rating — 21,875 ratings — published 1922 — 3 editions
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Mendel el de los libros

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4.03 avg rating — 20,380 ratings — published 1929
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Momentos estelares de la hu...

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4.24 avg rating — 19,037 ratings — published 1927 — 2 editions
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Quotes by Stefan Zweig  (?)
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“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

Polls

January 2018 New School Poll

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 468 pages, 1996
 
  68 votes, 19.5%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 207 pages, 1914
 
  39 votes, 11.2%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages, 1957
 
  29 votes, 8.3%

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages, 1953
 
  24 votes, 6.9%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  23 votes, 6.6%

 
  22 votes, 6.3%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920
 
  17 votes, 4.9%

 
  16 votes, 4.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pages, 1913
 
  16 votes, 4.6%

 
  15 votes, 4.3%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages, 1904
 
  13 votes, 3.7%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  12 votes, 3.4%

 
  12 votes, 3.4%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages, 1932
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

 
  10 votes, 2.9%

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pages, 1967
 
  9 votes, 2.6%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956
 
  7 votes, 2.0%

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace, 134 pages, 1905
 
  6 votes, 1.7%

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