The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig - Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell & Alexander Starritt

By Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell & Alexander Starritt

Release Date: 2016-02-02

Genre: Literary Fiction

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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 tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal.

To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world--is clear and irresistible. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique.
Five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work:

   â€˘ Burning Secret
   â€˘ A Chess Story 
   â€˘ Fear
   â€˘ Confusion
   â€˘ Journey into the Past
(Stand alone paperback editions of individual novellas from Pushkin and New York Review of Books will remain in print.)

The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig - Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell & Alexander Starritt

By Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell & Alexander Starritt

Release Date: 2016-02-02

Genre: Literary Fiction

(0 ratings)
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 tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal.

To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world--is clear and irresistible. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique.
Five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work:

   â€˘ Burning Secret
   â€˘ A Chess Story 
   â€˘ Fear
   â€˘ Confusion
   â€˘ Journey into the Past
(Stand alone paperback editions of individual novellas from Pushkin and New York Review of Books will remain in print.)

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