Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in -- Clive James Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion isover for good... it's good to have him back -- Salman Rushdie The New York Times [During his lifetime] arguably themost widely read and translated serious author in the world -- John Fowles

Stefan 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.