Stefan Zweig

"Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilized, urbane, but never jaded or cynical."—The IndependentA new selection of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas: Fantastic Night, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Fowler Snared, The Invisible Collection, Buchmendel, and Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman.

'... 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 …