Who wrote The World of Yesterday?

Stefan Zweig wrote The World of Yesterday, first published in 1942. It is a work of biography & memoir and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

Is there a book club guide for The World of Yesterday?

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Essential Read

The World of Yesterday

Name: The World of Yesterday
Author: Stefan Zweig

by Stefan Zweig · 1942

Biography & Memoir · ranked #19 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

Written in Brazilian exile weeks before his suicide in 1942, Zweig's memoir reconstructs the cosmopolitan, culturally rich Vienna of his youth and the Europe he loved — before two world wars dismantled it completely. One of the great elegies for a lost world, and one of the most clear-eyed accounts of how civilisation can be destroyed by forces that seemed, until they weren't, impossible.

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The verdict

Category: Biography & Memoir
First published: 1942 · 1940s
Author: Stefan Zweig
Standing: Essential Read

About Biography & Memoir

The best biography and memoir gives you both the person and their world. These are the books where the story of one life opens up into history, society or something essential about what it means to be human.