Stefan Zweig 
Biography of Three Writers 
Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy

Biography of Three Writers is one of Zweig’s representative biographies. In this book, Stefan Zweig chose three writers from the world literary world as his research objects. They are Italian writer Casanova, French writer Stendhal and Russian writer Tolstoy. The author studied their lives and creations from the performance of psychological analysis in literary works. Zweig believes that these three writers represent three different stages of creation, with the increasing stage one by another. Casanova is in the primitive stage. His works are nothing more than a description of his own life experience, writing it down without comment or analysis. And Stendhal is the psychological stage. Tolstoy went further and entered the stage of morality and religion.