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On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded with onlookers – and one voice in the crowd will play a key role in the outcome of the match.
Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller – that living monument to his own courage – would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy: a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows, ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity. ‘Beware of Pity’ is Stefan Zweig’s greatest novel, fiercely capturing human emotions in all their subtleties and extremes – while Hofmiller, his unforgettable, nave creation, misunderstands everything, resulting in his downfall.
Stefan Zweig was one of the greatest of all European writers of the short story. With extraordinary economy and verve he conjures up the strange and painful fates of individuals buffeted by the First World War and its grim aftermath. Six of his most famous stories are collected here in translations by Jonathan Katz: ‘The Invisible Collection’, ‘Episode on Lake Geneva’, ‘Leporella’, ‘Buchmendel’, ‘The Buried Candelabrum’ and ‘Burning Secret’.
On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded with onlookers – and one voice in the crowd will play a key role in the outcome of the match.
A new edition of this classic Zweig story – an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
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.
On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded with onlookers – and one voice in the crowd will play a key role in the outcome of the match.
Bringing the destruction of a war-torn Europe to life, ‘The World of Yesterday’ is Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death.
A poignant story in which the conflict between duty and loyalty mixed with desire is impressively conveyed.
Bringing the destruction of a war-torn Europe to life, ‘The World of Yesterday’ is Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death.
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America.
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