Book description
Mary Stuart was condemned for high treason and executed at the age
of forty-four. Held captive for twenty years by England's Elizabeth
IÂ-Mary Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne
of England was embroiled in the power struggles that shook the
foundations of Renaissance Europe from the moment of her birth to her
death. With all the rigour of a scientist and the passion of an
artist, Zweig has skillfully sketched a period full of political
turmoil, as well as the fascinating character of Mary Stuart.
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 poet and 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 an apparent double suicide.
