{"product_id":"stefan-author-zweig-the-world-of-yesterday-2011","title":"Stefan (Author) Zweig: The World of Yesterday [2011]","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of history.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring his lifetime, Stefan Zweig's (1881-1942) works were immensely popular and widely translated. In the decades after his death, he was largely forgotten in the English-speaking world. Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of interest in this singular author, and Pushkin Press has been at the forefront of this movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World of Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e, Zweig's memoir, was completed shortly before his suicide. It charts the history of Europe from nineteenth-century splendour, decadence and complacency, through the devastation of the First World War, to the resultant brutality and depravity of the Nazi regime. The World of Yesterday is a heartfelt tribute to an age of humanity and enlightenment that Zweig feared was lost for ever. An incomparable record of a lost era, this is also essential reading for those who have already fallen in love with Zweig's fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of the canonical European testaments... [Zweig's] life and work tell of the perilous flimsiness of our world of security - a message that many insistently deny, but somehow need to hear' John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century' David Hare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good... it's good to have him back' Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories' Edmund de Waal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with the Amber Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Zweig deserves to be famous again, and for good' \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Indispensable' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zweig, Stefan (Author) \u0026 Bell, Anthea (Translator (Ger))","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53892772102483,"sku":"9781906548674","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53892772135251,"sku":"XV81906548674","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/zweig-stefan-author-bell-anthea-translator-ger-stefan-author-zweig-the-world-of-yesterday-2011-1241012228.jpg?v=1780253499","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/stefan-author-zweig-the-world-of-yesterday-2011","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}