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| Original Title: | Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters |
| ISBN: | 0802139094 (ISBN13: 9780802139092) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Stefan Zweig
Paperback | Pages: 476 pages Rating: 4.28 | 4047 Users | 313 Reviews
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Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. "Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic "Excellent biography." -- The New York Times
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| Title | : | Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman |
| Author | : | Stefan Zweig |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 476 pages |
| Published | : | July 8th 2002 by Grove Press (first published 1932) |
| Categories | : | History. Biography. Nonfiction. Cultural. France |
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Ratings: 4.28 From 4047 Users | 313 ReviewsCommentary Of Books Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
First update after the first two chaptres: This book is so well written! What a relief. I have an interest in Kings and Queens and in the history of France and in interesting love affairs and when these tree topics are combined into a (little bit juicy, little bit gossipy) history, I'm totally up for it to actually read such stories. On the other hand, when they are not well written, they can bore me to death.Zweig's story about Marie Antoinette is definitely entertaining, but above all veryAs I stated when on What Are You Reading and Why bulletin board, I found this biography in a basement that I was helping to clean out. I was surprised by the age of the book and the subject matter. I realized that I knew very little about Queen Marie Antoinette other than the high-school snippets: her supposed reaction of "let them eat cake" to the famine in France, to her public beheading on all sorts of trumped charges, other than the main one --- she was not a good ruler.Since this book was
I learned a lot from this book, mainly that some of the things Marie was famous for were not really true. It was a hard read for me, as I am not a history fan. The ending was very dry. There were parts that were very easy to read and follow but the author flip flopped around too much for me. I thought the children's lives after their parents beheading was horrible.
An amazing book and biography, like most of Zweig's work. He is so talented, that you finish the book feeling like you personally know Marie-Antoinette. A great yet instructive read.
I've always steered clear of biographies on the premise that 400+ pages about any one person must be overkill. My dad strongly recommended this one, though, and I thought I'd give it a try. Much to my (pleasant) surprise, this book kept me interested on every page and through every chapter. Marie Antoinette's life history and the context both of her marriage to Louis XVI and the French Revolution are fascinating. It's not light reading, but it's certainly worth the effort. I really enjoyed it.
It was too detailed I guess and it had so much of writer's opinion instead of the truth
Easy readable for a non-fictional book. Would have been of help to remember more about the course of events during the French revolution, but that would have been too much for this 500-pager. So, I might do some further reading here...
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