The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

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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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'One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweigs stories. They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable.' -

'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov.' -

'One of the masters of the short story' - Nicholas Lezard

'Stefan Zweig... was a talented writerand ultimately another tragic victim of wartime despair. This rich collection... confirms how good he could be' - Eileen Battersby

'Zweig, prolific storyteller and embodiment of a vanished Mitteleuropa, seems to be back, and in a big way' - New York Times

Author Bio

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.