Marie Antoinette the portrait of an average woman

Main Author:	Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : Grove Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Marie Antoinette, > Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, > 1755-1793. Queens > France > Biography. France > History > Louis XVI, 1774-1793.

Item Description:	Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1933. Includes index.
Physical Description:	476 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0802139094 (pbk)
Author Notes:	Born in Vienna, the prolific Zweig was a poet in his early years. In the 1920s, he achieved fame with the many biographies he wrote of famous people including Balzac, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Freud. Erasmus with whom he closely identified, was the subject of a longer biography. He also wrote the novellas Amok (1922) and The Royal Game (1944). As Nazism spread, Zweig, a Jew, fled to the United States and then to Brazil. He hoped to start a new life there, but the haunting memory of Nazism, still undefeated, proved too much for him. He died with his wife in a suicide pact. (Bowker Author Biography)