Three Masters. Balzac. Dickens. Dostoevsky

Stefan Zweig is a classic of Austrian literature, the author of magnificent psychological novellas and fictionalized biographies, translated into all languages of the world. His biographies combine the artistic beauty of style and fidelity to history. 

This edition includes fascinating biographies... of three writers who, according to the author, are the "only great novelists of the nineteenth century" — Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Explaining his choice, Zweig writes: "The novelist in the ultimate, highest sense is only the encyclopedic genius, the all-encompassing artist who… constructs a whole cosmos and contrasts the earthly world with his own world, with his own types, his own laws of attraction, and his own starry sky... Each of these artists, in the abundance of images he has created, presents a certain feeling of life, a certain law of life, so unified and integral that it becomes a new form of the world." The book also includes the famous essay on the life of the great humanist of the Renaissance, "The Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam."