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The Society of the Crossed Keys

The Society of the Crossed Keys

Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel

by Stefan Zweig and Wes Anderson
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/03/2014

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'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel-and suddenly there weredozens more in front of me waiting to read.' - Wes Anderson

The Society of the Crossed Keys contains Wes Anderson's selections from the writings of the great Austrian author Stefan Zweig, whose life and work inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel.

A Conversation with Wes Anderson: Wes Anderson discusses Zweig's life and work with Zweig biographer George Prochnik.

The World of Yesterday: Selected extracts from Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, an unrivalled evocation of bygone Europe.

Beware of Pity: An extract from Zweig's only novel, a devastating depictionof the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman: One of Stefan Zweig's best-loved stories in full-a passionate tale of gambling, love and death, played out against the stylish backdrop of the French Riviera in the 1920s.
ISBN:
9781782271079
9781782271079
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-03-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer.

Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship.

After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.

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