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Messages from a Lost World
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist …
Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense …
Chess story
Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge …
Mental Healers
Stefan's Zweig Mental Healers is a triple biography of Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund Freud, three influential thinkers who travelled very different paths in their …
Governess and Other Stories
An eclectic collection of four brilliant stories, including a Renaissance tragedy and an English whodunitThese four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig's subject matter …
Burning Secret
Burning Secret is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly …
World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday, (Die Welt von Gestern) is a unique love letter to the lost world of pre-war Europe The famous autobiography is published by Pushkin …
Invisible Collection
Linked by the theme of obsessive intensity, these novellas explore the nature of desire by showing two lives led in the single-minded pursuit of art and literature, and of …
Shooting Stars
One of the twentieth century's great humanists and a hugely popular fiction writer, Stefan Zweig's historical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor. This collection …