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Auf dem Weg in den amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg: Eine Kompanie zwangsrekrutierter Soldaten bittet in einem Wirtshaus um eine Nacht Quartier. Es kommt es zu einem folgenschweren Vorfall, aus dem sich ein Drama entspinnt um Vergebung, Sühne und die quälende Frage nach der eigenen Identität.Das eher unbekannte Trauerspiel ¿Das Haus am Meer¿ ist ein sehr frühes Werk von Stefan Zweig, indem sich jedoch bereits deutlich seine pazifistische Neigung zeigt. Zu Zweigs Lebzeiten vor der nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme wurde das Stück in zahlreichen Theatern aufgeführt und 1924 verfilmt unter der Regie von Fritz Kaufmann.

Written over a period of 25 years, this first volume is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationality - Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Each of the novelists featured has created his own sphere: Balzac, the world of society; Dickens, the world of the family; Dostoevsky, the world of the One and of the All.

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new translation of The Game of Chess and Other Stories is here presented in a unique collection.

This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual portraits selected from among its most representative and influential figures

Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs' time together and presents personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary.

Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig's posthumous classic, available here in English for the first time. Christine toils in a provincial post office in Austria just after World War One, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from her rich American aunt inviting Christine to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Immediately she is swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose and Christine is forced to return to the Post office where nothing will ever be the same. In this haunting yet compassionate reworking of the Cinderella story, Zweig shows us the human cost of the boom and bust of capitalism. The Post Office Girl was completed during the 1930s as Zweig was driven by the Nazis into exile, and was found among his papers after his suicide in 1942. It is available here for the first time in English. 'Zweig is one of the masters of the short story and novella, and by 'one of the masters' I mean that he's up there with Maupassant, Checkhov, James, Poe or indeed anyone you care to name.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian.