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Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette
Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history
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Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love, the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyses the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history.
Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. In his account of the Revolution, he details her resolve during the failed escape to Varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie, and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine.
Zweig's account has been the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Fraser and the recent film adaptation.
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Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig is highly praised as a powerful and engaging biography. It is noted for being potentially the definitive account of the life of the tragic queen, with remarkable detail and influence in its portrayal.
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ISBN: 9781906548308
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 July 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Eden Paul
- Translated by Cedar Paul
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 592
About the Author
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.
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