Synopses & Reviews
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne of England, was condemned for
treason and executed at the age of forty-four.
It has taken the free spirit and the immense talent of Stefan Zweig to justly reconstruct the life and passionate character of a woman who was so cruelly united with destiny.
Synopsis
A gripping biography of the doomed Scottish queen, who spent her life embroiled in the power struggles of Renaissance Europe.
About the Author
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.