Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War.

An impassioned narrative, Zweigs biography focuses on the human emotions of the.

In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. Stefan Zweigs Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket No marks or writing. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Marie Antoinette (Half Leather) The Portrait of an Average Woman. Zweig's account has been the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Fraser and the recent film adaptation. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children.

Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France.

Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig