{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-of-stefan-zweig-by-stefan-zweig-9781805331827","title":"The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' - \u003cem\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Anthea Bell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStefan 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 \u003cem\u003eLetter from an Unknown Woman, Amok\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFear\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York - a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, \u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, and his memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe World of Yesterday\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnthea Bell (1936-2018) ranked among the leading literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her work from German, French and Danish into English encompassed the writings of Kafka, Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Simenon, W.G. Sebald, René Goscinny, Cornelia Funke and many others. Her translations for Pushkin Press of Stefan Zweig have reintroduced to English-language readers the work of one of the most popular European authors of the interwar period. She won numerous literary awards, some of them several times, and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537074700524,"sku":"9781805331827","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/41ac41aed238a281e27c187feadb00e4.jpg?v=1777948605","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-collected-stories-of-stefan-zweig-by-stefan-zweig-9781805331827","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}