The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title ) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before Zweig and Altmann both committed suicide in February 1942.
Publication history
The book was first published in the original German language by an anti-Nazi Exilliteratur (exile literature) publishing firm based in Stockholm (1942), as . It was first published in English in April 1943 by Viking Press. In 2011, Plunkett Lake Press reissued it in eBook form. In 2013, the University of Nebraska Press published a translation by the noted British translator Anthea Bell.
Content
The book describes life in Vienna at the start of the 20th century with detailed anecdotes.