Stefan Zweig

Joseph Fouché (1759-1820) est l'une des figures les plus énigmatiques de son temps. Elevé chez les Oratoriens, il fut un pilleur d'églises. Conventionnel modéré, il massacra les royalistes de Lyon. Ayant voté la mort de Louis XVI, il fut ministre de Louis XVIII. Napoléon, qui en fit son ministre de la Police, le …

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 idea of the …

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 of her birth …

After nine years of separation from his native country because of the First World War, Louis finally sets foot in Austria and meets the woman he had been in love with and who had promised to wait for him. Previously divided by class and wealth, both are now married and much changed by their recent experiences, and …

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A DOCTOR IN the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war …

" La lutte passionnelle d'une femme pour sa liberté sur un mode de quasi-thriller psychologique. " Jörg StickanPar envie de se divertir, Irene Wagner, épouse d'un riche avocat, entretient une liaison avec un musicien, jusqu'au jour où, en sortant de chez son amant, elle est bousculée par une femme qui la reconnaît. …