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Books by Stefan Zweig
Joseph Fouché
by Stefan Zweig
· published 1929 · read 2008-07-01
★★★★☆
Stefan Zweig just has a way with words, and his biography of Joseph Fouché taught me more about Napoleon's France (and the France before and afterwards) than my history lessons ever did.
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
· published 1941 · read 2008-12-01
★★★★☆
Autobiographical memories of Zweig's youth in Austrian empire Vienna, as an intellectual jew. Balancing on the line between "elegant" and "overly flowery", late-life Zweig had surprisingly turned into a fan of the monarchy. He's busy romanticising the past, but he does it so well that I can't be mad at him.
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
· published 1942 · read 2007-06-01
★★★☆☆
Mandatory reading in many German schools. Not all that exciting a read, unless you are into chess or the art for of the novella tackling the rise of fascism and the cost of obsession.