1946 "Published in November 1946" stated on copyright page; The Viking Press publishers, New York; translated by William and Dorothy Rose; hardbound with grey boards and red lettering; book in good condition with very minor page fading; previous owner's Ex Libris sticker inside front; no dust jacket.
 
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Stefan Zweig (/zwaɪɡ, swaɪɡ/; German: [tsvaɪk]; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
 
Zweig was born in Vienna, the son of Moritz Zweig (1845–1926), a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida Brettauer (1854–1938), a daughter of a Jewish banking family. He was related to the Czech writer Egon Hostovský, who described him as "a very distant relative"; some sources describe them as cousins.
 
Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1904 earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of Hippolyte Taine".