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As much in his novellas as in his short stories, the Austrian writer's psychological acuity brought his protagonists and their dilemmas vividly to life... A rediscovery of Zweig through this book gives an enlightening perspective on the past century and how we got where we are today. -- BlogCritics.org Burning Secret 'Breathtaking ... the final sentence is unlike anything I have ever read before' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian A Chess Story 'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' Economist Fear 'Brilliant, unusual and haunting ... Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good' Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Confusion 'A marvellously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires' Robert Macfarlane, TLS Journey into the Past 'Vintage Stefan Zweig--lucid, tender, powerful and compelling' Independent

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Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family and studied in Berlin and Vienna before making his name as a writer. His passionate, dramatic short stories and gripping biographies of major historical and literary figures, including Beware of Pity and The World of Yesterday, made him one of the most popular writers in the world in the 1920s and 30s. During these years Zweig travelled widely, enjoying his literary fame and cultivating friendships with many of the great literary figures of his day. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil.

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