Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781906548933
ClassificationsDewey:833.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pushkin Press
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publication Date 31 January 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award- -winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film directed by Max Ophuls and starring Joane Fontaine. WC Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude to her childhood sweetheart. Expertly paced, laced with the acutely accurate psychological detail and empathy that are Zweig's trademarks, this is a powerful addition to Pushkin's growing collection of his work.

Author Biography

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 WC 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.

Reviews

In the 1920s and 30s, Stefan Zweig was one of the most famous writers in the world. Thanks to the enterprising Pushkin Press, it is now possible to read the novellas on which his reputation must finally depend -- Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement If this is just a taste of the power and beauty of Zweig's prose then I think we have a fabulous journey of stories ahead of us Savidge Reads