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Barcelona.: Apolo., 1951.. Hardcover. Good. 15 cm. 219 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Zweig, Stefan 1881-1942. Traducción del alemán por Joaquín Verdaguer. Título del original en alemán: Kleist. Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1844-1900. Hölderlin, Friedrich. 1770-1843. Kleist, Heinrich von. 1777-1811. Verdaguer, Joaquín. 1898-1966 . Biografías (929 Nietzsche, Friedrich), Biografías (929 Hölderlin, Friedrich), Biografías (929 Kleist, Heinrich von)

London: Cassel and Company Limited, 1945 The dust jacket is rubbed and lightly foxed, has scuffed edges with several 2-3 tears and missing pieces as well as a clipped inside flap. The page edges are lightly foxed. 124 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Hastings House, 1954. Cloth. Fine/Fair. Sturdy book, quality gray cloth, red lettering on spine very fine, note in Arabic inside front cover, blue stamp for person in Tehran inside back cover, 344 pages. DJ glossy blue background front and spine, white back lightly soiled with photo, design in black and white on front with white lettering. DJ has 3/8" tear at top front spine iindentation, rubbed at spine middle. Fair DJ/Fine book.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are a little rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. [AK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Pages are age toned. DJ with mylar protection.

Other Press, New York NY, 2014.. Octavo; hardcover, with silver gilt spine titling; 390pp., untrimmed, with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "From his new home in the 'lush perch' of nearby Petropolis, the emigre Viennese bestseller relished the warmth, grace and tolerance of Brazil's 'new kind of civilisation', with its blessed absence of racism. Meanwhile, in the Nazi-occupied Europe that the literary superstar had fled, total war had reached its deep midnight. With his younger second wife Lotte Altmann chronically ill, his peers scattered and the 'posthumous existence' of the exile closing in, his depression deepened. A few days later, he took a fatal dose of barbiturate; Lotte followed him. Although their double suicide seemed to ratify Goebbels' grim jest about artistic emigres as 'cadavers on leave', the shock stiffened the resolve of Zweig's many friends in the anti-Hitler diaspora. The New York Times ran a heartfelt editorial: not the refugees but the Nazis, it said, were the real exiles from civilisation, 'branded with the mark of Cain'. By the end of 1942, after El Alamein and Stalingrad, a faint daybreak began. Zweig would never see that dawn. Thoughtful, evocative and quietly gripping, George Prochnik's book about Zweig's exemplary exile does not offer a cradle-to-grave biography. Oliver Matuschek, whom he fully credits, did that job superbly in 2011. Rather, The Impossible Exile braids this hugely successful writer's ordeal of dispossession and homelessness after 1934 with the trajectory of Prochnik's own family - like Zweig's, Viennese Jews who moved to the Americas. He also travels in his subject's footsteps and crafts aphorism-studded reflections on his work, life and times. If such a hybrid genre presents pitfalls for the writer, it can also deliver rich rewards. Rebecca Mead, for one, reaped them in her fine book about a lifetime's journey with George Eliot, The Road to Middlemarch. If this equally subtle blend invites that comparison, it may not be pure coincidence. George Prochnik and Rebecca Mead are husband and wife. .. Prochnik can pay homage to this big-hearted, hyper-active visionary with a 'genius for friendship' without making him the equal in exile of Thomas Mann or Sigmund Freud - whose eulogy Zweig delivered at Golders Green cemetery in 1939.Typically, it fell to Zweig - the ultimate networker and stalwart volunteer - to do the job. Up the road in Hampstead, Prochnik speaks with Lotte's niece Eva, who as a child lived with the couple. Now in her eighties, Eva can look back on a long, rich career in the health service and as a mentor for young musicians. Despairing solitude snuffed out Zweig's own hopes. Yet his books endure - re-translated recently to loud acclaim - while those he nurtured would heal a wounded world. Through the lives and minds of others, the exile rebuilt his home." - Boyd Tonkin

Barcelona.: Juventud., 1972.. Hardcover. Sobrecubierta deslucida. Good. 22 cm. 271 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942. ÑA . Sobrecubierta deslucida. Biografías.(929) [[929]]

Fischer (S.), Frankfurt, 2002. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Other Press, 2014. Purple boards with white titled spine, dust jacket. 390 pages, some text photos. "By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile—from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also depicts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world of ideas in Europe and in America, and the consuming struggle of those forced to forsake one for the other. It also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era-the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.". Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

S. Fischer, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. No edition remarks. 368 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. In German. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Some rubbing and marking.