Stefan Zweig
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
Zweig c. 1927
Zweig (standing) in Vienna with his brother Alfred (1879–1977), c. 1900
Street named after Zweig in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
Barbiturates from Bayer in glass tubes with cork caps - 10 tablets probably produced around 1940
The Royal Game
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The Royal Game is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. The title has also been used for a collection that also includes "Amok",
Stefan Zweig
…Confusion of Feelings (1927), Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927), the psychological novel Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity, 1939), and The Royal Game (1941). In 1934, as a result of the Nazi Party's rise in Germany and the establishment of the Ständestaat regime in Austria, Zweig emigrated to England…
Elke Rehder: Woodcut to the chess story The Royal Game
The first edition of The Royal Game