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 artistic beauty of style with historical accuracy. 

This edition includes fascinating biographies of three... writers who, according to the author, are "the only great novelist writers of the nineteenth century" — Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Explaining his choice, Zweig writes: "A novelist in the last, highest sense is only an encyclopedic genius, a universal artist who... constructs an entire cosmos and contrasts his own world with the earthly world, with its own types, its own laws of gravity, and its 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 whole 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."