# Stefan Zweig
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stefan zweig (; German: [ˈʃtɛ.fan t͡svaɪ̯k] (listen); 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world.Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; published in English in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures).
Agnès Poirier & Nikki May
Agnès Poirier, the French writer and broadcaster, and British-Nigerian novelist Nikki May introduce us to their favourite books. Nikki chooses a haunting novel about life after the breakdown of society following a flu pandemic. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel was written well before Covid an…
美文阅读 | 体育颂 Ode to Sport (顾拜旦)
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Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. (Nelson Mandela)
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Ode to Sport
Pierre de Coubertin
The Battle for the South Pole
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#116 - The story of Marie-Antoinette's Champagne: with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne
Pour a glass and hold onto your tiara: this episode drops us straight into the gilded world of Rare Champagne, the vintage-only prestige cuvée born at the court of Versailles.
We sit down with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne, inside the house's headquarters in Reims (in the Salon …
Anne Hunt
Anne and I talk about a book named Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, and as a bonus All visitors ashore by C. K. Stead. Enjoy!
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Liza Libes Shares How Academia Turned Jane Austen Into a Colonizer (and Buried Tolstoy's Best Lessons)
Liza Libes is defending literature like it's under siege, and after this conversation, you will understand why.
Liza went to Columbia wanting to study Tolstoy and came out having read more Edward Said and Sartre she signed up for. We got into how her English degree turned into a theory degree ov…
Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig
"Burning Secret" by Stefan Zweig delves into the complex dynamics of a lonely, convalescing 12-year-old boy and his attractive mother, who find themselves entangled with a charming gentleman during a European vacation. As the man cunningly seeks to seduce the mother with the boy's unwitting assista…
586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arrival of fascism can…
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