The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig

Twenty-two stories by Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular writers of short fiction of the twentieth century, all translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell and collected here for the first time in English

One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's storiesThey have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable. -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov. -- Paul Bailey One of the masters of the short story -- Nicholas Lezard Guardian The stories are as page-turning as they are subtle... Compelling Guardian Stefan Zweig... was a talented writer and ultimately another tragic victim of wartime despair. This rich collection... confirms how good he could be -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams -- Simon Winchester Telegraph Zweig, prolific storyteller and embodiment of avanished Mitteleuropa, seems to be back, and in a big way New York Times For far too long, our links with Zweig... have been broken. Pushkin Press's phenomenal, heartbreaking collection is a reminder that it's time to forge them again Los Angeles Review of Books The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer,and Bell renders his prose flawlessly New York Observer Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever Newsweek

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, he 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.

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ISBN 13	9781782270034
ISBN 10	1782270035
Title	The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Author	Stefan Zweig
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2013-11-07
Number of pages	720
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