Selected Stories by Stefan Zweig
A new selection of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas: "Fantastic Night," "Letter from an Unknown Woman," "The Fowler Snared," "The Invisible Collection," "Buchmendel," and "Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman."
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is a mini-masterpiece about the fever of addiction and of middle-aged infatuation -- Julie Kavanagh The Economist Intelligent Life Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov - of whom he was in aweHe was formidably well read, but in his fiction he is as much at ease with the unlettered as the learned... Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding -- Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906548223 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906548226 |
| Title | Selected Stories |
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2009-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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