{"product_id":"stefan-author-zweig-marie-antoinette-2010-paperback","title":"Stefan (Author) Zweig: Marie Antoinette [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Excellent biography' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stefan Zweig's definitive biography gives us Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant worlds of the Trianon and Versailles, and with her children. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to Varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine. Sensitively and acutely, Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. His account has become the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Fraser and Sofia Coppola's film adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Eden and Cedar Paul.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including \u003cem\u003eLetter from an Unknown Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmok\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFear\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel \u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/em\u003e. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zweig, Stefan (Author) \u0026 Paul, Cedar (Translator) \u0026 Paul, Eden (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53155760308563,"sku":"9781906548308","price":21.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53155760341331,"sku":"XV81906548308","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/zweig-stefan-author-paul-cedar-translator-paul-eden-translator-stefan-author-zweig-marie-antoinette-2010-paperback-1224835131.jpg?v=1772568698","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/stefan-author-zweig-marie-antoinette-2010-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}