When the Stars Shine Author: [Austria] Stefan Zweig Wanjuan Publishing Co., Ltd.

☆ Zweig's 80th anniversary commemorative edition hardcover edition

☆ The translator referred to multiple versions, carefully polished the text, and launched a brand new translation without any deletions or annotations.

☆ The cover is made of hot stamping + embossed technology, and a free exquisite four-color cosmic star map leaflet is given. The cover is printed on high-weight special paper, which is tear-resistant; the whole book is sewn, hardcover, and has exquisite lining, and can be spread out 180° for reading.

☆ 14 moments that have influenced human civilization, historical features regarded as classics by Yu Hua, Thomas Mann and Freud.

☆ The representative work of Stefan Zweig, the "King of Biographical Literature" and author of "Letter from an Unknown Woman".

☆ This observer of all aspects of the human spirit gazes into and recalls the world that has passed away.

☆ Is peace and openness really just a small moment in history? In today's era, it is even more worth reading.

"There is only one thing that makes people tired - that is wavering. And every thing you do will free your body and mind. Even if you do it badly, it is better than doing nothing."

Zweig threw a bunch of grenades at me, got my heart rate up to 80 to 90 beats per minute, gave me the kind of reading thrill I hadn’t felt for a long time, and kept my life safe.

——Writer Yu Hua

Many people recommended "When the Stars Shine", but I hesitated for a long time before I opened it. Because I was not good at history when I was young, I felt a little scared when I heard that it was a book about history. As a result, I couldn't stop reading after reading a chapter. There are more than a dozen stories in the book, spanning different eras and countries, and they are all full of excitement and surprises.

——Actress Gao Yuanyuan

Zweig was extremely adept at controlling language. He was good at expressing an object in such a way that even the most delicate details became vivid, clear and concrete.

——Psychologist Freud

Zweig's literary fame reaches to every corner of the earth... Perhaps no writer since Erasmus has been as famous as Zweig.

——Thomas Mann, German writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature

A quarter of an hour's hesitation ruined Napoleon's great career;

A small door that was forgotten to be closed overturned the regime of the Byzantine Empire;

A lucky escape gave birth to Russia's great writer;

A failed negotiation started a world war...

These accidental opportunities have become the important parts that propel the great era. 14 moments that have influenced human civilization, 14 people whose names have been left behind, have greatly influenced our daily lives.

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)

Born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents, he entered the University of Vienna to study philosophy at the age of 19 and successfully published a collection of poems, The Silver String, at the age of 20. After the outbreak of World War II, the Jews were massacred by the Nazis, and Zweig fled to other countries and later settled in Brazil.

In 1942, due to the loss of peace and despair, Zweig and his wife committed suicide. His representative works include "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "When the Stars Shine", and "The World of Yesterday".

About the Translator:

Wang Xiuli

A translator of English and American literature, she graduated from Peking University. Her major translations include When the Stars Shine, The Back of the Dynasty, History of Absurd Medicine, The Rose and the Sword: Extraordinary Women Who Changed History, etc.