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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully d...

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 Zweig is to risk addiction, in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one ...

Perfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century.

A new pocket edition of this compelling novella of seduction, jealousy and betrayal. Follows on from the success of last year's pocket edition of "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" and translated by Anthea Bell.

1 of 3 new pocket editions of Stefan Zweig's novellas to sit alongside last year's popular edition of "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman". A beautiful tale of maddening desire. Translated by Anthea Bell.

a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig accla...

A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, "Journey into the Past, " published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig's papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything--time, war, betrayal--can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich ...

It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that we don't know about this-how is it that I am the only person I know who's read this book?" Wes Anderson, on Stefan Zweig's "Beware of Pity"Contents: "A Conversation with Wes Anderson-"Wes Anderson discusses Zweig's life and work with Zweig biographer George Prochnik. "The World of Yesterday-"Selected extracts from Zweig's memoir, " "an unrivalled evocation of bygone Europe. "Bew...

Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig, in a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell. The first time in print in the UK for over 70 years - it has never been out of print in German, selling more than two million copies.

This new Pushkin Collection edition of Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimnis) is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story-a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig

Features 22 stories by Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular short-fiction writers of the 20th century. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell and presented in a beautiful cloth bound hardback edition.

Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion - one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats.

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.

Translations previously published separately 2002-2013.

The first hardback edition of the only novel written by one of the most popular authors of the 20th century, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Stefan Zweig's novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the backdrop of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In this newly available English translation the reader rediscovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the author of Amok and Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman: his compassion towards human suffering, the horror of war and his faith in idealism, generosity, love - values that can, in an instant, illuminate an entire existence.

Features four stories which illustrate the author's subject matter dating from quite early onwards, in his career as a writer of fiction.

Presents the story of a fashionable lady who is banished from Versailles by the king. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she entertains lovers and friends from Paris, she comes to find it intolerable. This is a tale of violence, unrequited passion, and a marriage that is no true marriage.