Read The World of Yesterday Online
Authors: Stefan Zweig
English translation © Anthea Bell
The World of Yesterday
first published in German as
Die Welt von Gestern
Stockholm 1942
© Williams Verlag Zurich
First published in 2009 by
Pushkin Press
12 Chester Terrace
London NW1 4ND
This new edition first published in 2011
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 906548 82 7
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Cover:
The Coffee House ‘Griensteidl’ in Vienna
1896 Reinhold Völkel
© Städtisches Museum Vienna
Frontispiece: Stefan Zweig
© Roger-Viollet Rex Features
Set in 10.5 on 13.2 Baskerville Monotype
and printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd