The main task characteristics of classifying the time when human stars shine are:
1. The fall of Byzantium:
On May 29, 1453, Ottoman Turkish Sultan Muhammad II captured the last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire: Constantinople, later renamed Istanbul.
2. Find refuge in immortal causes:
On September 25, 1513, Spanish explorer Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean.
3. Handel's Resurrection:
On August 21, 1741, Handel, a composer who had exhausted his talents, suddenly found inspiration in a poem and wrote an immortal poem. He wrote "Messiah" and was saved.
4. Overnight genius:
On April 25, 1792, when the stars of mankind were shining, the young Captain Rouget was invited by the mayor of Strasbourg to serve as a general for the Rhineland. The army composed a war song, and in the early morning of April 26, "La Marseillaise" was born.
5. One minute of Waterloo:
On June 18, 1815, Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo because of the cowardly and mediocre deputy general Grouchy who insisted on his orders.
6. Marienbad's Elegy:
On September 5, 1823, on his way home from the sanatorium, Goethe could not restrain his longing for a girl there. Unable to overcome his grief, he wrote the most famous love poem in his later years: "The Elegy of Marien Bader".
7. The discovery of El Dorado:
In January 1848, John August Suter discovered gold mixed in mud in his territory, now California. into the sand, thus setting off a “gold rush” that lasted four years and swept the world.
8. Escape to God:
The continuation of Leo Tolstoy's unfinished play "Light in the Dark".
9. The first call across the ocean:
On July 28, 1858, driven by American industrialist Cyrus West Field, mankind crossed the ocean The first Atlantic call came true.
10. Closed train:
On April 9, 1917, Lenin boarded the train from Switzerland to Germany and back to Russia. This closed train was like a Cannonballs sent the revolutionary mentor back to the motherland and defeated an empire.
11. Heroic moment:
The famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was influenced by the ideas of utopian socialism in his youth and participated in the Petrashe In April 1849, he was arrested together with members of the sect due to his political activities, and was deprived of his noble status and sentenced to death.
12. The struggle of the Antarctic expedition:
The Norwegian Amundsen and the British Scott each led an expedition team in order to become the first people in the world to reach the Antarctic. people and engage in fierce competition.
13. Cicero:
The last four years of ancient Rome’s life.
14. Wilson’s dream and failure:
US President Wilson’s dream was to ensure permanent peace for mankind, but he failed miserably.
Extended information
About the author of When the Stars Shine:
Stephen Zweig (1881-1942) is quite familiar to Chinese readers German writer. He was born in a wealthy Jewish businessman family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He had little literary talent. He began publishing literary works before the age of sixteen. He later entered the University of Vienna to study German and French literature, and received a doctorate in 1903.
Zweig wrote prolifically throughout his life, including novels, poems, dramas, essays, travel notes, literary essays, biographies, etc., and he also translated literary masterpieces. But the achievements that made him famous in the world of literature are mainly short stories and biographies.
His novels are famous for their delicate and profound psychological portrayal, fresh and beautiful writing style, and are deeply loved by readers and praised by critics.
"Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" and "Letter from a Strange Woman" are her masterpieces. Others such as "Hazy Night" and "The Story of Chess" are enough to reflect her creations Important works of style.
The representative work of his biographical creation is the masterpiece "Three Masters", which discusses Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky; in addition, "Romain Rolland" and "Self-Portrait of the Master" ( His account of Casanova, Stendhal and Tolstoy), "Psychiatric Therapy", etc. are all important spiritual wealth he left to future generations.
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