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These meditative, emotional poems courageously confront the fear and longing that surrounded Zweig's own death, the death of family members, and a dying love, with a postscript that includes several unfinished poems.

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Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film Mary Queen of Scots.

An unusual and highly interesting biographical study of three major thinkers, Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund Freud.

»Viele Grüße von Verhaerens Heim!« lautet der Text des ersten Stücks der erhaltenen Korrespondenz Stefan Zweigs mit dem gleichaltrigen Paul Zech, diese Postkarte wurde am 16. August 1910 in Caillou-qui-bique (Belgien) aufgegeben. Der Briefwechsel der beiden Schriftsteller ist zwar nur zu einem Teil erhalten (71 Briefe und Karten von Stefan Zweig, 50 von Paul Zech), gibt aber dennoch sehr klar konturierte Spiegelbilder der Partner. Stefan Zweig...

Fascinating biographical studies--both highly personal and philosophically wide ranging.

A biographical essay of Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth - which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself.

A biography of France's youngest queen that promises to 'analyse the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to he public suffering under the weight of misfortune...and her tragic destiny under the guillotine.' Zweig based this biography on the correspondence the queen held with her mother and with her great love, the Count Axel De Fersen.

She was born to be Queen of Scotland, she was briefly the Queen of France and she had a claim to being Queen of England, which resulted in her having her head chopped off. They chopped off her head after she was found guilty of conspiring to have Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) assassinated so that she could take power. Had she not been executed, she would eventually have become Queen of England when Elizabeth died. That was only one of the many...

Paul Zweig grew up in Brooklyn, but left New York to explore Paris in the 1950s. After a decade in France, he returned to America and became a respected, well-known man of letters, who, at the age of forty-three, discovered he had cancer. This brilliant memoir tells of his passionate life and his dignified response to the approach of his death.

Ferdinand Magellan was the first man ever to sail around the world. His voyage was financed 75% by the King of Spain, Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor, and 25% by Christopher de Haro, a Dutch businessman residing in Spain. The purpose of the trip by Magellan was not Gold, Glory and God, as is commonly believed. Rather, it was for better food, as the basic spices commonly available today, including pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and mace, we...

They chopped off her head To tell the story of Marie Antoinette is to relive the great revolution. To assail the Monarchy, the revolution had to attack the Queen, and in the Queen, the woman. Thus Marie Antoinette, of inviolate virtue, kind heart, and heroic character, was sacrificed by the hordes in their determination to overthrow the Monarchy and send its Queen to the guillotine under the stigma of a prostitute, and guilty of every form of ...

Zweig brings to life the age of Discovery by telling the tale of one of the era's most daring adventurers.