Title: The world of yesterday : an autobiography /
Authors: Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Zohn, Harry; Huebsch, B. W. 1876-1964.; Ripperger, Helmut, 1897-1974.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 1964
Subjects: Zweig, Stefan,; Authors, Austrian Biography
Abstract: "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."--Publisher's description.
Contents: The world of security -- School in the last century -- Eros matutinus -- Universitas vitae -- Paris, the city of eternal youth -- Bypaths on the way to myself -- Beyond Europe -- Light and shadow over Europe -- The first hours of the War of 1914 -- The struggle for intellectual brotherhood -- In the heart of Europe -- Homecoming to Austria -- Into the world again -- Sunset -- Incipit Hitler -- The agony of peace.