Six Stories
$22.56
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2024
Summary
Six newly translated stories from the bestselling Austrian author.
“One of the masters of the short story” - Guardian
These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions, and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control. Whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, a servant infatuated with her employer, or a young boy witnessing illicit adult passions, each tale portrays …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192826 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141192828 |
| Author: | Stefan Zweig |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
One of the masters of the short story. * Guardian *They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable. – Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
About The Author
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig’s best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and Chess (1942), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.
Jonathan Katz is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the University’s Public Orator. He is the translator of Six Stories by Stefan Zweig (Penguin, 2023) as well as works by Goethe, Theodor Storm and Joseph Roth.
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