The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig PDF
Title The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Author Stefan Zweig
Publisher Pushkin Press
Category General Fiction Classics
Released Date 2013-11-07
Language English
Format EPUB
Pages 824
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Summary
Perfectly paced and brimming with passion-twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century. In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell ; 'One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories. They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable.'-Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes ; 'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work .'-Nick Lezard ; 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov.'-Paul Bailey ; Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born 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. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas includ...
Chapter List (28 chapters):Chapter 1: Cover
Chapter 2: Title Page
Chapter 3: CONTENTS
Chapter 4: FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Chapter 5: IN THE SNOW
Chapter 6: THE MIRACLES OF LIFE
Chapter 7: THE STAR ABOVE THE FOREST
Chapter 8: A SUMMER NOVELLA
Chapter 9: THE GOVERNESS
Chapter 10: TWILIGHT
Chapter 11: A STORY TOLD IN TWILIGHT
Chapter 12: WONDRAK
Chapter 13: COMPULSION
Chapter 14: MOONBEAM ALLEY
Chapter 15: AMOK
Chapter 16: FANTASTIC NIGHT
Chapter 17: LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
Chapter 18: THE INVISIBLE COLLECTION
Chapter 19: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN
Chapter 20: DOWNFALL OF THE HEART
Chapter 21: INCIDENT ON LAKE GENEVA
Chapter 22: MENDEL THE BIBLIOPHILE
Chapter 23: LEPORELLA
Chapter 24: DID HE DO IT?
Chapter 25: THE DEBT PAID LATE
Chapter 26: Also Available from Pushkin Press
Chapter 27: About the Publisher
Chapter 28: Copyright
