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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: 4.12 · 652,503 ratings · 63,830 reviews · 2,177 distinct worksSimilar authors
Chess Story

4.27 avg rating — 173,914 ratings — published 1942 — 890 editions
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Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

4.09 avg rating — 70,641 ratings — published 1922 — 53 editions
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Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirm...

3.89 avg rating — 42,201 ratings — published 1925 — 452 editions
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The World of Yesterday

4.51 avg rating — 29,649 ratings — published 1942 — 54 editions
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Korku

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4.12 avg rating — 29,443 ratings — published 1910 — 219 editions
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Amok Koşucusu

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3.97 avg rating — 25,314 ratings — published 1922 — 458 editions
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Beware of Pity

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4.26 avg rating — 21,926 ratings — published 1939 — 8 editions
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Olağanüstü Bir Gece

3.90 avg rating — 20,830 ratings — published 1922 — 2 editions
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Mendel el de los libros

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4.03 avg rating — 18,611 ratings — published 1929 — 73 editions
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Momentos estelares de la hu...

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4.24 avg rating — 17,358 ratings — published 1927 — 44 editions
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More books by Stefan Zweig…
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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

September 2016 Short Story Poll

 
  41 votes, 19.4%

Antigone by Sophocles, 80 pages, -441
 
  29 votes, 13.7%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  25 votes, 11.8%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879
 
  24 votes, 11.4%

 
  20 votes, 9.5%

Everyday Use by Alice Walker, 16 pages Title Story Only, 1974
 
  17 votes, 8.1%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  15 votes, 7.1%

Daisy Miller by Henry James, 126 pages, 1878
 
  15 votes, 7.1%

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 121 pages, 1916
 
  14 votes, 6.6%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903
 
  11 votes, 5.2%

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