The World of Yesterday

By the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.

Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig’s writing in arguably his most revealing work.

• The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present (Sixth Edition) (The Norton History of Modern Europe)
• The Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics)
• Little Man, What Now?
• The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics
• The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)
• Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
• Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
• Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
• The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past
• Beware of Pity (New York Review Classics)