ZWEIG STEFAN
(P/B) WONDRAK
AND OTHER STORIES
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Compulsion, In the Snow and Wondrak all concern Zweig's strong anti-war feelings following the First World War. The artist Ferdinand, central figure of Compulsion, partly reflects Zweig's own experience. In The Snow tells of the plight of a group of Jews who freeze to death while trying to escape a medieval pogrom. In Wondrak, a woman, disfigured since birth, attempts to save her only child from being drafted into the military. In this newly available English translation the reader discovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the aut... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CONFUSION
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A young student finds himself drawn ever closer to his passionate and enigmatic English teacher. In the autumn of his days, a privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments in his life. He remembers sharing a lodging with a professor and his wife and a close friendship is formed. The professor, however harbours a dark secret which changes both men forever. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN
AND THE ROYAL GAME
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Two of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in one volume. As heard on BBC Radio 4's "Book at Bedtime", "Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman" is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening, during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the elegant atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerised by the obsessive gambling of young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair and death, changing thei... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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TWILIGHT - MOONBEAM ALLEY
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Twilight, based on the real life of Madame de Prie, brilliantly evokes the downfall of a powerful lady who is banished from Versailles by order of the King. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she takes a lover and invites friends from Paris, she finds her exile intolerable. Life at court, for all its essential emptiness, was the only thing that gave her existence meaning. The traveller delayed in a French port on his way home to Germany explores the sailors' quarter as night falls, in Moonbeam Alley. E... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) FANTASTIC NIGHT
AND OTHER STORIES
Εκδότης: PUSHKIN PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3226-0000 Five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in this volume for the first time. Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. Letter from an Unknown Woman is a poignant and heartbreaking tale of the strength and madness of unrequited love; in The Fowler Snared, it is the man whose passion remains unrequited. The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel explore lives led in the single-minded pursuit of art and literature against a backdrop of poverty and war. (From t... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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CASANOVA
Εκδότης: PUSHKIN PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3226-0026 THIS NEW EDITION of Stefan Zweig's biographical essay, subtitled A Study in Self Portraiture, was originally dedicated to Maxim Gorky. Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city, created his own myth which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself. Imaginative writers, writes Zweig, rarely have a biography, and men who have biographies are only in exceptional circumstances able to write them ... Casanova is a splendid, almost unique exception. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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