Montaigne
A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century
Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last…
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November 10, 2015Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 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. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York—a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel,Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
The Last Miracle
Stefan Zweig
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig
Encounters and Destinies
Stefan Zweig
Journeys
Stefan Zweig
Mary Queen of Scots
Stefan Zweig
Burning Secret
Stefan Zweig
Amok
Stefan Zweig
Triumph and Disaster
Stefan Zweig
Genius and Discovery
Stefan Zweig
Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig
Messages from a Lost World
Stefan Zweig
Montaigne
Stefan Zweig
The Pendragon Legend
Antal Szerb
The Hunting Gun
Yasushi Inoue
I Was Jack Mortimer
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
Alexander Pushkin
Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
Henry James
City of Lions
Philippe Sands, Jozef Wittlin
An Evening with Claire
Gaito Gazdanov
The Last and the First
Nina Berberova
Poems to Night
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Marquise of O–
Heinrich Von Kleist
Isolde
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