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It is not by chance that I bring together in a single book these three essays on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. With a common purpose I try to show the three great novelists of the 19th century as prototypes because of the contrast of their personalities complement each other... Read Full Overview

Three autobiographical works joined into one volume.

Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at fairly long intervals,... Read Full Overview

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Jeder dieser drei Romanschriftsteller hat seine eigene Sph re. Balzac die Welt der Gesellschaft, Dickens die Welt der Familie, Dostojewski die Welt des Einen und des Alls. Vergleiche dieser Sph ren zeigen ihre Unterschiede, niemals aber ist unternommen, diese Unterschiede in... Read Full Overview

Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at fairly long intervals,... Read Full Overview

Stefan Zweig ist einer der popul rsten und talentiertesten deutschsprachigen Schriftsteller. Seine Werke geh ren zu den Klassikern, die Kraft und Wirkung seiner Sprache beeindrucken bis heute. In diesem Werk widmet sich Zweig seinen drei gro en Vorbildern Honor de Balzac, Charles... Read Full Overview

"Mitrei end und wortgewaltig arbeitet Zweig den Typus des Romanciers heraus, der in seiner Phantasie in der Lage ist, eigene Universen zu schaffen, in die er uns entf?hrt - zu unserer Unterhaltung und im Interesse unserer Entwicklung, wenn wir es zulassen. Trefflich l?sst er... Read Full Overview

"Drei Meister" from Stefan Zweig. osterreichischen Schriftsteller, Journalist und Biograf (1881-1942)."

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview