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Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories (Paperback)
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Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories (Paperback)
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Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories
contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one
of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman , the
inspiration for a classic 1948 Hollywood film by Max Ophuls, as
well as three new stories, appearing in English for the first time.
A famous author receives a letter on his forty-first birthday. He
doesn't know the sender, but still the letter concerns him
intimately. Its story is earnest, even piteous: the story of a life
lived in service to an unannounced, unnoticed love. In the other
stories in this collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves
for her sister; two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart;
and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude. All four tales,
newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among
Zweig's most celebrated and compelling work-expertly paced, laced
with empathy and an unwaveringly acute sense of psychological
detail. Contents Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer
Unbekannten) A Story Told in Twilight (Geschichte in der Dammerung)
The Debt Paid Late (Die spat bezahlte Schuld) Forgotten Dreams
(Vergessene Traume) 'Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for
good... it's good to have him back ' - Salman Rushdie, The New York
Times 'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work.' -
Ali Smith, TLS Book of the Year 2008 Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was
born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied
in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator,
then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg
between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string
of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman,
Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to
London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later
moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of
the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left
Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he
and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of
his work is available from Pushkin Press.
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