Marie Antoinette the Portrait of an Average Woman
They chopped off her headTo tell the story of Marie Antoinette is to relive the great revolution. To assail the Monarchy, the revolution had to attack the Queen, and in the Queen, the woman. Thus Marie Antoinette, of inviolate virtue, kind heart, and heroic character, was sacrificed by the hordes in their determination to overthrow the Monarchy and send its Queen to the guillotine under the stigma of a prostitute, and guilty of every form of moral corruption and perversion.Somewhere between the two descriptions of the woman lies the truth. What kind of a woman was Marie Antoinette?The life of Marie is perhaps the most singular example of how…
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Weitere Autoren: Sloan, Sam (Solist) / Paul, Eden And Cedar (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-4-87187-855-5
- EAN: 9784871878555
- Produktnummer: 6552398
- Verlag: Ishi Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 508 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.9 cm 772 g
- Gewicht: 772
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Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright and biographer. Born into an Austrian-Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and biographies. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world: extremely popular in the United States, South America and Europe - he remains so in continental Europe - however, he was largely ignored by the British public.Zweig is best known for his novellas (notably The Burning Secret, The Royal Game, Amok, and Letter from an Unknown Woman; novels (Beware of Pity, Confusion, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl); and his vivid psychological biographical essays on famous writers and thinkers such as Erasmus, Tolstoy, Balzac, Stendhal, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Freud and Mesmer.In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig fled from Salzburg to London, then to New York, and finally to Brazil. Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, was completed in 1942, one day before Zweig and his second wife were found dead, following an apparent double suicide.
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