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Stefan Zweig

* November 28, 1881 in Austria - † February 23, 1942 in Brazil
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I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as allthe books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately lovedthis book, his one, big, great novel-and suddenly there weredozens more in front of me waiting to read.' Wes Anderson The Society of …

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite …

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Following the death of her husband, a middle-aged Englishwoman travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerized by the obsessive gambling of a young Polish aristocrat. This fateful …

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In Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman, the dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. In The Royal Game, a tantalizing …

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Author: Stefan Zweig and Ernst Wiechert translated by Cornelia Fuykschot The Eyes of My Brother, Forever and The White Buffalo – These two novellas demonstrate in their comparison to today’s society that civilization will never learn all the answers; that justice and injustice are separated by a line so fine that …