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Montaigne Paperback - 2015

by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)

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A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century

Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise.

One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty.

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  • Title Montaigne
  • Author Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3d Printing
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pushkin Collection, London
  • Publication date 2015
  • ISBN 9781782271031 / 1782271031
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.5 x 4.75 x 0.55 in (16.51 x 12.07 x 1.40 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Montaigne, Michel de - Criticism and
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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.
Translated from the German by Will Stone.

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