📗 Libro en inglés THE COLLECTED STORIES OF STEFAN ZWEIG

One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig s work Ali Smith The Updike of his day Zweig is a lucid writer and Bell renders his prose flawlessly New York Observer Perfectly paced and brimming with passion twenty two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century In this indispensable collection of short stories Stefan Zweig captures the best and worst of human nature At the heart of these tales lies passion from a humble waiter s love for an aristocratic guest to an exiled Frenchwoman s longing for the glitter of court life and a bookseller s fatal lust for print in wartime Vienna Translated by the award winning Anthea Bell and spanning a prolific literary career these stories form a map of the human soul drawn by a writer both tender and perceptive Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand picked from around the globe Translated by Anthea Bell 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