Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.
- ISBN10 0803252242
- ISBN13 9780803252240
- Publish Date 1 October 1964 (first published 1 January 1943)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 January 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 461
- Language English