Wednesday, January 8, 2014

The World of Yesterday

Gustav Klimt: Adele Bloch-Bauer I (detail)
Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer (detail), 1907

By Stefan Zweig, trans. Anthea Bell, Lincoln, U. of Nebraska Press, 1942

A stunning memoir of the Austro-Hungarian empire told by upper-class, Jewish citizen of Vienna.  

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