"Rausch der Verwandlung" ist ein in den dreissiger Jahren entstandenes Romanfragment von Stefan Zweig, das 1982 aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben wurde. Der Herausgeber Knut Beck erganzte es dabei um Notizen von Zweig und unternahm verschiedene redaktionelle Uberarbeitungen."

Víte, že hymnu francouzských revolucionářů Marseillaisu složil zarytý stoupenec monarchie? Že objev zlata v Kalifornii udělal z nejbohatšího muže světa žebráka? A že stačilo jen zavřít zadní branku, a Turci by nedobyli Cařihrad? O tom všem píše Stefan Zweig v této knize, která se ve světě již dávno proslavila. Přináší dvanáct mimořádně zajímavých příběhů, které v posledních pěti stoletích měnily tvář našeho světa. Jsou o vojevůdcích, geniálních vynálezcích i nesmrtelných umělcích. A o tom, proč právě kvůli nim udeřila...

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America.

Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide together in 1942.

Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's...

Stefan 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. 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. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to varennes, her...

These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophuls and starring Joane Fontaine.
Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude to her childhood sweetheart. Expertly paced, laced with the acutely accurate psychological detail and empathy that are...

A new paperback edition of the only novel written by one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell.

It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that we don't know about this-how is it that I am the only person I know who's read this book? Wes Anderson, on Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity Contents: A Conversation with Wes Anderson-Wes Anderson discusses Zweig's life and work with Zweig biographer George Prochnik. The World of Yesterday-Selected extracts from Zweig's memoir, an unrivalled evocation of bygone Europe. Beware of Pity-An extract from Zweig's only novel, a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love. Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a...