Paul Verlaine
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers interested in French Symbolist poetry and Verlaine's life
- Readers who enjoy Zweig's biographical and psychoanalytic writing
- Readers who wish to encounter a public-domain literary biography in the original English
- Students needing supplementary background material for university foreign-literature courses
Not a good fit for
- Advanced researchers seeking a systematic study of Verlaine's complete poetic works
- Readers without English reading ability and without a parallel translation
- Academic readers expecting a detailed chronology and documentary scholarship
Reading tips
- Read a few of Verlaine's representative poems first; the critical biography will then feel more concrete.
- Compare this book with other biographies by Zweig to observe his style.
- The English text is short; consider reading it in one sitting and noting key judgments as you go.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was an Austrian writer known for delicate psychological portrayal and tightly constructed narrative; since the library holdings give only limited biographical detail and public information is likewise limited, this note focuses on his works. The library holds ten of his works, spanning fiction, drama, and literary criticism: novellas and stories such as Amok: Novellen einer Leidenschaft, Brennendes Geheimnis: Erzählung, and Die Liebe der Erika Ewald: Novellen center on intense emotion and inner conflict, revealing characters' psychology at moments of crisis; the drama Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes (also Jeremias: Eine dramatische Dichtung in neun Bildern) develops dramatic conflict from biblical material; and Drei Meister: Balzac, Dickens, Dostojewski offers critical assessments of three writers. His concise language and attention to inner life have earned him a wide readership in Chinese.
