The Collected Novellas

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Vintage Zweig' The Times

'Breathtaking ... the final sentence [of Burning Secret] is unlike anything I have ever read before -- Nicholas Lezard Guardian

'[A Chess Story is] perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' --Economist

'A captivating mix...[Zweig] generates momentum out of extremes in thought and feelin...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Vintage Zweig' The Times

'Breathtaking ... the final sentence [of Burning Secret] is unlike anything I have ever read before -- Nicholas Lezard Guardian

'[A Chess Story is] perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' --Economist

'A captivating mix...[Zweig] generates momentum out of extremes in thought and feeling, the turbulent negotiations between inner and exterior lives, but he is happiest in mixed feelings, in detecting minute alterations in head and heart'Independent

'[Fear is] brilliant, unusual and haunting ... Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good' --Salman Rushdie, New York Times

'Vintage Stefan Zweig-[Journey into the Past is] lucid, tender, powerful and compelling' -- Independent

[Confusion is] a marvellously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires' --Robert MacFarlane, TLS

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, he left Austri...

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, he 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.