Marie Antoinette [Audiobook] download free by Stefan Zweig
- Listen audiobook: Marie Antoinette
- Author: Stefan Zweig
- Release date: 2017/8/23
- Publisher: PUSHKIN PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781906548308
- Rating: 9.14 of 10
- Votes: 124
- Review by: Enzo Jacobs
- Review rating: 7.72 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/14
- Duration: 7H29M1S in 256 kbps (118.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPC, WMA, MPEG4, MP3, AU, FLAC (compression 7-ZIP, DMG, ZIP, LZMA, CBR, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 592
- Includes a PDF summary of 64 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 47M13S (12.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European historyStefan 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 analyzes 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. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes 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.Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Royalty, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, European History, Biography: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.26 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x38.1mm
- Weight: 430.91g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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