Viking Press first edition 1933
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Author | Stefan Zweig |
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Original title | Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters |
Translator |
Eden Paul Cedar Paul |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Publisher | Insel-Verlag |
Publication date
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1932 |
Published in English
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1933 |
Pages | 639 |
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (German: Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters) is a 1932 biography of the French queen Marie Antoinette by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
The Viking Press published the first English-language edition, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, in 1933. The book was the basis for the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer.