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Brennendes Geheimnis
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other... more...
Chess
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableOn a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins... more...
Wondrak
Pushkin Press 2009; US$ 10.19Compulsion, In the Snow and Wondrak all concern Zweig s strong anti-war feelings following the First World War. The artist Ferdinand, central figure of Compulsion, partly reflects Zweig s own experience. In The Snow tells of the plight of a group of Jews who freeze to death while trying to escape a medieval pogrom. In Wondrak, a woman, disfigured... more...
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Pushkin Press 2011; US$ 10.19Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening while enjoying the elegant atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerised by the obsessive gambling of a young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair and death, changing... more...
Burning Secret
Pushkin Press 2008; US$ 10.19A lonely twelve-year-old boy becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who has set out to seduce the boy's mother. A study of childhood on the brink of adolescence and a boy's uncontrollable jealousy and feelings of betrayal. more...
Amok and Other Stories
Pushkin Press 2007; US$ 10.19A wonderful collection of four Stefan Zweig novellas: Amok , The Star Above the Forest , Leporella , and Incident on Lake Geneva . Zweig's four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century. more...
The Royal Game
Pushkin Press 2007; US$ 10.19On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger. The stranger?s diffident manner masks his extraordinary ability to challenge the grandmaster in a game of chess; it also conceals his dark and damaged past, the horror of which emerges as the game unfolds.... more...
The Post-Office Girl
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.002009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl , Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism.Christine toils in a provincial post office in post?World... more...
Confusion
Pushkin Press 2002; US$ 10.19In the autumn of his days, a distinguished privy councillor contemplates his past and looks back at the key moments of his life. A reluctant and indolent student, he recalls a chance meeting with a reclusive professor and his frustrated wife, with whom he ends up sharing lodgings. His thirst for knowledge leads him to form an ambiguous and close relationship... more...









