On 2010-02-08 Claudia A. Colaferro, around wrote: I was very curious about knowing the author´s point of view about Marie Antoinette. To me Zweig is a rare writer that really makes you see through the characters, if imaginary or not, the action, the emotion. Really makes you live the book. And of course it has a real story on it that nobody really knows for sure.... And summed up by saying Zweig knows how to describe a history. Currently Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Grove Great Lives) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Cedar Paul claimed Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig´s Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine´s most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig´s biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. ´Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work.´ -- The New Republic ´Excellent biography.´ -- The New York Times
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