Pushkin Press, 2012. — 464 p. — ISBN: 1906548730 (ISBN13: 9781906548735) In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance - his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the...
Pushkin Press, 2008. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1901285855 (ISBN13: 9781901285857) A suave baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer to the woman he desires. The initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but has no...
NYRB Classics, 2005. — 104 p. — ISBN: 1590171691 (ISBN13: 9781590171691) Peter Gay (Introduction), Joel Rotenberg (Translator) Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, which was completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only a matter of days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in...
NYRB Classics, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN: 1590174992 (ISBN13: 9781590174999) Anthea Bell (Translator) Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form. A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by...
Ishi Press, 2010. — 386 p. — ISBN: 4871878562; ISBN13: 9784871878562. Sam Sloan (Foreword by), M. Eden Paul (Translator) Ferdinand Magellan was the first man ever to sail around the world. His voyage was financed 75% by the King of Spain, Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor, and 25% by Christopher de Haro, a Dutch businessman residing in Spain. The purpose of the trip by Magellan...
Pushkin Press, 2006. — 168 p. — ISBN: 1901285545; ISBN13: 9781901285543. Presents five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas, including Fantastic Night, The Invisible Collection, Buchmendel, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and The Fowler Snared.
Pushkin Collection, 2010. — 112 p. — ISBN: 1906548188 (ISBN13: 9781906548186) Anthea Bell (Translator) Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother predictable after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover’s former mistress begins blackmailing her, threatening to give...
NYRB Classics, 2010. — 136 p. — ISBN: 1590173678 (ISBN13: 9781590173671) Anthea Bell (Translator), André Aciman (Introduction) A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in...
В «Письме незнакомки» Цвейг рассказывает о чистой и прекрасной женщине, всю жизнь преданно и самоотверженно любившей черствого себялюбца, который так и не понял, что он прошел, как слепой, мимо великого чувства. Роман написан в 1922 году.
Pushkin Press, 2013. — 153 p. — ISBN: 1906548935 (ISBN13: 9781906548933) Anthea Bell (Translation) Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman , the inspiration for a classic 1948 Hollywood film by Max Ophüls, as well as three new...
Pushkin Press, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN: 1906548374 (ISBN13: 9781906548377) Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne of England, was condemned for treason and executed at the age of forty-four. A potential threat to the stability of the English Crown, she was held captive for twenty years by her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England. From the moment...
Pushkin Press, 2016. — 216 p. — ISBN: 1782271554 (ISBN13: 9781782271550) Will Stone (Translation) 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 regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses,...
Pushkin Press, 2009. — 253 p. — ISBN: 1906548226 (ISBN13: 9781906548223) Anthea Bell (Translator), M. Eden Paul (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator) Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him...
Pushkin Press, 2013. — 720 p. — ISBN: 1782270035; ISBN13: 9781782270034. Anthea Bell (Translation) In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at...
Pushkin Collection, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1906548358 (ISBN13: 9781906548353) Anthea Bell (Translator) These four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig's subject matter dating from quite early in his career as a writer of fiction (The Governess, rooted in a world of strict Edwardian morality), to late (Did He Do It?, almost an English detective story set near Bath, where...
Pushkin Press, 2015. — 400 p. — ISBN: 178227149X (ISBN13: 9781782271499) Anthea Bell (Translator) This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn...
Sort Of Books, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0954221729 (ISBN13: 9780954221720) Joel Rotenberg (Translator), William Deresiewicz (Afterword) It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks...
Pushkin Press, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN: 1782271074 (ISBN13: 9781782271079) Wes Anderson (Editor), Anthea Bell (Translator), George Prochnik (Interviewer) 'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel-and...
The World of Yesterday (German title Die Welt von Gestern) is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his wife, to the publisher a day before his wife's and his suicide in February, 1942....
Pushkin Press, 2009. — 480 p. — ISBN: 1906548676 (ISBN13: 9781906548674) Anthea Bell (Translator) Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly...
Pushkin Press, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN: 1782272747 (ISBN13: 9781782272748) A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity. Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of...
Pushkin Press, 2006. — 212 p. — ISBN: 1901285618 (ISBN13: 9781901285611) Anthea Bell (Translator) Two of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in one volume. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One...
Pushkin Collection, 2005. — 104 p. — ISBN: 190128557X (ISBN13: 9781901285574) Anthea Bell (Translation) Twilight is the story of a fashionable lady who is banished from Versailles by the king. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she entertains lovers and friends from Paris, she comes to find it intolerable. Life at court, for all its...
Pushkin Collection, 2009. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1901285863 (ISBN13: 9781901285864) Anthea Bell (Translator) Compulsion, 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...
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