The World of Yesterday Author: [Austria] Stefan Zweig Translator: Xu Youjing et al./ Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

The World of Yesterday is an autobiographical work by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, written between 1939 and 1941. It was completed when Zweig was forced into exile before his death. It was published in Stockholm in 1942 after Zweig's death.

In this work, Zweig integrated his personal destiny with the times, and through the people and events he experienced, he showed the cultural life of the cities and countries where he lived, recorded the turbulent European society from the eve of the First World War to the Second World War, described his interactions with some world-famous poets, writers, sculptors, and musicians, revealed the little-known life anecdotes of world cultural celebrities, and interspersed with the author's various delicate thoughts. Zweig started writing from Vienna, the city where he was born, and his Jewish family, and continued writing until September 1939 when he was 60 years old and the Second World War broke out. He believed that this was "the end of the era of those of us who are sixty years old."