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Selected Stories [Paperback]

Stefan Zweig (Author), Anthea Bell (Translator), Eden Paul (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator)
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Book Description

Publication Date: Jan 1 2009

"Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilized, urbane, but never jaded or cynical."—The Independent


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.


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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press (Jan 1 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1906548226
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906548223
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 299 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #294,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A mini-masterpiece about the fever of addiction and of middle-aged infatuation."  —Intelligent Life on Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

About the Author

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer. His other titles include Beware of Pity, Chess Story, Fantastic Night and Other Stories, The Post-Office Girl, and The World of Yesterday.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Wars Saddest Victim Mar 27 2010
By An admirer of Saul - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Six short stories exploring the passion of human existence. Each one unique in its execution, each equally briiliant in the telling.
'Fantastic Night'sees a mans belief in life restored, '24 Hours in the life....'has a cultured English lady fall into a heated passion for a gambler,'Invisable Collection' a fable set in the hyper inflationary period,'Buchmental' a beautiful tale of a man absorbed by books to the exclusion of the world, 'Letter from...' a womans unrequited passion for a writer, and 'Fowler Ensnared' a cassanover type tale... no writer can compere or compete with Zweigs versaltility and depth. Each situation is inventive with so many human traits explored and touched upon. That Zweig was a close friend and admirer of Freud shines through-one even wonders how much Freuds ideas gained from association with Zweig!

That Zweig commited suicide in 1942 aged 61 is a human tragedy. His world of free thinking and exploration of ideas was destroyed for a second time with a second world war;the first,he saw, leading to the equally repugnant and oppressive political dogmas of nazi-ism and communism. He may have had another 20 years to live.The world lost a great commentator, a great thinker. Though maybe the upheavals, political and social, in the 50's and 60's would have left him more demoralized.
The great thing we have, however, is his great legacy of words, and this is a brilliant collection in which to get to know this great man
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Zweig spoils you for others.... Oct 2 2010
By H. Carlton - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
The great problem with reading the extraordinary Stefan Zweig is that you want to read only him... he tends to spoil you for other writers. Why? I have no idea. I only know that some very powerful magic takes over from the first lines of his stories or novellas, that propel you into them so intensely that you just cannot wait to learn what happens to these people.
Why?
Why do we care so much?
I have been trying to understand that since discovering Zweig through a friend some ten years ago. His output of stories was not enormous, and I have since read that he wrote many of his novellas as 400-page full-length novels, later ruthlessly cutting them, or distilling them, to around 80-100 pages.
Is that the secret? Did he manage to pack into a short story what most writers cannot pack into an entire novel? Yes, yes and yes.
Reading a Zweig novel is an emotional experience.
One is almost panting by the last sentence. Why?
Read and wonder.
I love reading and I have read a lot of books. Nobody has the effect that Zweig has on me. I find him one of my top three favourite and most brilliant writers.
Perhaps the best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars zweig : my all time beloved author Jan 3 2013
By olena - Published on Amazon.com
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i read most of zweig's works when i was a yound adolescent. having read him as an old senior has not changed his profound impact

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