Perfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century In this indispensable collection of short stories, Stefan Zweig captures the best and worst of human nature. At the heart of these tales lies passion - from a humble waiter's love for an aristocratic guest to an exiled Frenchwoman's longing for the glitter of court life, and a bookseller's fatal lust for print in wartime Vienna. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, and spanning a prolific literary career, these stories form a map of the human soul, drawn by a writer both tender and perceptive.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 13 Feb 2025
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781805331827
About Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator then as a biographer. Between the wars Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok and Fear. In 1934 with the rise of Nazism Zweig left Austria and lived in London Bath and New York - a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel Beware of Pity and his memoir The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.