Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig

The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ecstasy, redemption and betrayal which will haunt her life forever.

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	9781901285482
ISBN 10	1901285480
Title	Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Author	Stefan Zweig
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2003-05-01
Number of pages	136
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