The World of Yesterday

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Stefan Zweig's memoir of Vienna and European culture before the First World War, and of its destruction through two world wars. Translated by Anthea Bell.

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• Patrick Collison: “I feel like I gained much more understanding of historical Vienna and of the emotions around WWI from reading Zweig's memoir than from any direct history of the period.”