斯蒂芬·茨威格

"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.

The factors that change the course of history are primarily the product of the contributions made by individual lives to the broad pattern of mortal existence. In his collection of 'historical miniatures,' Stefan Zweig celebrates the monumental power of the spirit to discover, to create, to transcend the limits …