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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 …

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 …

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 …