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The Royal Game Other Stories
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 2000
The Royal Game Other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Stefan Zweig gained early fame as a poet, translator, and biographer. When he added fiction to his repertoire, his work was critically acclaimed. However, Zweig has fallen into an undeserved obscurity, and unlike the works of his contemporaries and admirers--fellow Austrian and German writers such as Thomas Man, Herman Hesse, and Sigmund Freud--Zweig's writings have become almost completely unavailable to the English-speaking audience. The Royal Game and Other Stories is a collection of five of his brilliant creative achievements, revives Zweig's art, making it once again available to a wide range of readers. Spanning his entire career, the stories included-""The Royal Game,"" ""Amok,"" ""Letter from an Unknown Woman,"" ""The Burning Secret,"" and ""Fear""-each reveal an individual's passionate response to life. Toying with the theme of the mind left to itself, Zweig gives the reader everything from the story of a child's distrust of his mother to one of a man driven to insanity by his imaginary chess games. Zweig's enormous interest in psychology and psychological problems combine with early century settings to provide compelling stories that prove Zweig to be a master of psychological narrative. Through the years, the stories of Stefan Zweig have been hailed as intense and memorable psychological thrillers-adventures of the mind-with wide, universal appeal. The five masterpieces in this book reveal why Zweig has earned such praise, and should help his legacy continue on to a new generation of readers.
Summary The Royal Game Other Stories By Stefan Zweig
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Author : Shortcut Edition
language : en
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
Release Date : 2021-06-27
Summary The Royal Game Other Stories By Stefan Zweig written by Shortcut Edition and has been published by Shortcut Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-27 with Business & Economics categories.
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn what interests you in identifying and cultivating your gifts. You will also learn: that your talents reveal part of your individuality; that strengthening your faculties gives you the opportunity to accomplish yourself; that by perfecting his chess skills, the main character has sharpened his intelligence and learned to better control his emotions; that by devoting yourself to your passion, you can overcome moral trials. Published posthumously in 1943, Stefan Zweig's short story The Chess Player relates the meeting and confrontation of two chess players who are at odds with each other. One is a peasant who has become a world champion thanks to his skill at chess, the only talent he possesses. The other is an Austrian aristocrat, whom the Gestapo officers have subjected to total isolation in a hotel room. To resist this psychological torture, he played mental chess games. Despite their different backgrounds, each of them benefited from exploiting their talent. What benefits can you gain from your passion? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
The Royal Game
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Author : Linda Keir
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-30
The Royal Game written by Linda Keir and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Fiction categories.
American pop singer Jennie Jensen is ready to marry the love of her life, England’s Prince Hugh, but someone is determined to keep her from becoming a princess—any way they can. To give her fairy tale a happy ending, she’ll have to play the royal game. Jennie Jensen is touring Europe, already living her dream, when Prince Hugh of Wales—the future King of England—appears at a gig and requests his favorite song. He’s already smitten, and soon so is she. After a secretive, whirlwind romance, Hugh proposes, and when Jennie accepts, her world changes overnight. She’s still learning to navigate the minefield of constant scrutiny, barbed social interactions, and royal protocol (there are rules about pantyhose), as she learns that not everyone in England is excited about the prospect of an American princess. When Jennie receives a threatening note, she can’t help but see the parallels between herself and another young woman who struggled to adjust to royal life: Hugh’s mother, Princess Penelope, who was killed in a mysterious plane crash. And as the threats to Jennie grow more serious, she digs into Penelope’s past, discovering a woman who also suspected someone in the palace was out to get her. Was Penelope murdered? And is Jennie next? With the eyes of a nation on her as the royal wedding approaches, she’s in a race against time to save her marriage ... and her own life. Both a charming love story and a thrilling mystery, The Royal Game reveals one woman’s determination to find happily ever after—on her own terms.
The Governess And Other Stories
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Governess And Other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Fiction categories.
This selection of novellas, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, begins with' Did He Do It?' A curious whodunit set in England, it nonetheless has the extraordinary psychological insight that typifies Zweig's best work. 'The Miracles of Life' explores the conflicting forces of belief and art, love and obsession, amidst the religious struggles of Renaissance Antwerp. Finally, two Viennese stories, 'The Governess' and 'Downfall of the Heart' are shattering in their portrayal of disillusionment - two little girls move from cosy chidlhood to the cold glare of adulthood in a single morning, and a father's heart breaks irrevocably. Wide-ranging and compelling, this is another brilliant collection of stories from Austria's rediscovered master of twentieth-century European literature.
Married To Stefan Zweig
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Author : Friderike Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Married To Stefan Zweig written by Friderike Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An essential companion piece to Stefan Zweig's classic The World of Yesterday, this memoir addresses many of the questions that this internationally celebrated author raised but did not answer. A professional journalist and researcher in her own right who first encountered Zweig in 1908, Friderike threads her story between what Zweig called the Scylla of "exaggerated candor" and the Charybdis of self-love. She paints a detailed portrait of her famous husband from his birth into a wealthy Jewish family in late 19th century Vienna to his suicide (with his second wife) in Brazil in 1942. Married to Stefan Zweig, first published in 1946 under the title Stefan Zweig, provides a thorough overview of the writer's poems, plays, stories, biographies, essays and articles, his work habits, and his relations with editors, publishers, friends, mentors and protégés. Friderike also illuminates facets of the tumultuous context of political and social upheaval in which Zweig worked during his years in Salzburg and London. Married to Stefan Zweig is among the very small number of women’s memoirs from 20th century Central Europe and an unusual portrait of a marriage anywhere, anytime.
The World Of Yesterday
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2013-08-06
The World Of Yesterday written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Marie Antoinette The Portrait Of An Average Woman
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Marie Antoinette The Portrait Of An Average Woman written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Originally published in 1932 and for decades since one of Stefan Zweig’s most popular biographies, this “portrait of an average woman,” betrothed at fourteen, crowned queen at nineteen, and beheaded at thirty-seven, aimed “not to deify, but to humanize.” Supplementing library and archival research with psychological insight,Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a vivid narrative of France’s most famous queen, her relations with her mother Empress Maria Theresa, her husband Louis XVI, and her lover Swedish Count von Fersen, set against the backdrop of the French and Austrian courts of the ancien régime, the French Revolution and the Terror. “... the biography to end all biographies on Marie Antoinette ... [Zweig's book] possesses all the qualities of the excellent biography — directness, frankness, full exposition, picturesqueness, characterization, color and delectable readableness.” —The New York Times “Powerful, magnificent, poignant…” — The New Republic “A stupendous and superb piece of work.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
Adepts In Self Portraiture Casanova Stendhal Tolstoy
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-16
Adepts In Self Portraiture Casanova Stendhal Tolstoy written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Written in the 1920s, Zweig's work of literary criticism and biography might today be titled Masters of Memoir. In it, Stefan Zweig – one of the 20th century’s most widely-published writers – describes the creative process and work of authors for whom no subject is as compelling as the material of their own lives. Adepts in Self-Portraiture examines the lives and work of three men who represent, in Zweig's view, three levels of development in autobiographical writing. The first and most basic level is evinced by Giacomo Casanova, the Venetian womanizer who records his sexual and social conquests, adventures and escapes, without attempting to analyze or even reflect on them. The second level of self-portraiture is exemplified by Stendhal, the French pioneer of psychological fiction, who kept voluminous notebooks on his own experience of life and on whom no nuance of feeling seems to have been lost. Russian master Leo Tolstoy represents the third and highest level of autobiographical writing in which the psychological is imbued with the spiritual and ethical. In Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Stefan Zweig examines the impulses that give rise to life writing and anticipates the current popularity of the memoir form.
Joseph Fouch Portrait Of A Politician
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Joseph Fouch Portrait Of A Politician written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This biography of the man Stefan Zweig viewed as "the most perfect Machiavelli of modern times" was written in 1929, before the full impact of Nazism and Stalinism was understood. In this gripping case study of ruthlessness, political opportunism, intrigue, and betrayal, Zweig portrays Minister of Police Joseph Fouché (1759-1820), a "thoroughly amoral personality" whose only goal was political survival and the exercise of power. Zweig traces Fouché's career, beginning with his stint as a math and physics teacher in provincial Catholic schools and evolving into a moderate and then radical legislator. Fouché cultivated every political movement du jour, holding no convictions of his own. After preaching clemency for Louis XVI, Fouché voted to send the King to the guillotine. After writing "the first communist manifesto of modern times" he became a multi-millionaire. He led the brutal repression of an anti-revolutionary movement, earning him the nickname "le mitrailleur (butcher) de Lyon". After serving Robespierre, Fouché engineered his overthrow and rose to Minister of Police under the Directory, which he then helped to overthrow before putting his network of informants in Napoleon’s service as his Minister of Police. After turning against the Emperor, Fouché served the new King Louis XVIII – whose brother he had helped send to the guillotine. Thus, Fouché served the Revolution, the Directory, the First Empire and the Restoration.
Zusammenfassung The Royal Game Other Stories Das K Nigliche Spiel Und Andere Geschichten Von Stefan Zweig
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Author : Shortcut Edition
language : de
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
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Zusammenfassung The Royal Game Other Stories Das K Nigliche Spiel Und Andere Geschichten Von Stefan Zweig written by Shortcut Edition and has been published by Shortcut Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Durch die Lektüre dieser Zusammenfassung werden Sie erfahren, was Sie bei der Identifizierung und Kultivierung Ihrer Begabungen interessiert. Sie werden auch lernen: dass Ihre Begabungen einen Teil Ihrer Individualität offenbaren; dass die Stärkung deiner Fähigkeiten dir die Möglichkeit gibt, dich selbst zu verwirklichen; dass die Hauptfigur durch die Perfektionierung ihrer Schachkenntnisse ihre Intelligenz geschärft und gelernt hat, ihre Gefühle besser zu kontrollieren; dass man moralische Prüfungen überwinden kann, wenn man sich seiner Leidenschaft widmet. Die 1943 posthum veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte Der Schachspieler von Stefan Zweig handelt von der Begegnung und Konfrontation zweier Schachspieler, die miteinander im Streit liegen. Der eine ist ein Bauer, der dank seines einzigen Talents, dem Schachspiel, zum Weltmeister geworden ist. Der andere ist ein österreichischer Aristokrat, der von den Gestapo-Beamten in einem Hotelzimmer völlig isoliert wurde. Um dieser psychologischen Folter zu widerstehen, spielt er geistiges Schach. Trotz ihres unterschiedlichen Hintergrunds profitierten beide davon, ihr Talent zu nutzen. Welche Vorteile können Sie aus Ihrer Leidenschaft ziehen?