Mary Queen of Scots

International bestseller: Stefan Zweig's classic royal biography paints a vivid portrait of one of British history's most fascinating and misunderstood figures

From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power struggles that shook the foundations of Renaissance Europe. Revered by some as the rightful Queen of England, reviled by others as a murderous adulteress, her long and fascinating rivalry with her cousin Elizabeth I led ultimately to her downfall.

Zweig, one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century, brings Mary to life and turns her tale into a story of passion and plotting as gripping as any novel.

Author: Stefan Zweig
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 12/18/2018
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781782275459
ISBN10: 1782275452
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Scotland

About the Author
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 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 bed in an apparent double suicide.