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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertai ...Show more
Beware Of Pity by Stefan Zweig
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
In 1913, a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastatingly unindulgent portrayal of the to ...Show more
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' - Ali Smith 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't ...Show more
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator); Alexander Starritt (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by ...Show more
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks in a Grand Hotel in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accept ...Show more
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, "The World of Yesterday" recalls the golden age of literary Vienna--its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and inti ...Show more
The World of Yesterday - Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary ...Show more
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