Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures - Couverture rigide

Zweig, Stefan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782272747 ISBN 13 : 9781782272748

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2016

Synopsis

A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity.

Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of Constantinople to Scott's doomed attempt to reach the South Pole, bringing the past to life in brilliant technicolor.

Contents: Foreword The Field of Waterloo The Race to Reach the South Pole The Conquest of Byzantium The Sealed Train (Lenin's journey across Europe before the Russian Revolution) Wilson's Failure (Woodrow Wilson and Versailles)

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782272747
• ISBN 13: 9781782272748
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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