Stefan Zweig

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 …

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they …