Stories and essays

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• "The Invisible Collection" and other stories by Stefan Zweig

  24 October 2020 by Stefan Zweig

  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. TWO LONELY SOULS (1901) A disabled lad limps home at the end of the day’s work in his factory, left behind by the other workers because of his handicap. He stops when he hears sobbing by the roadside and tries to console another social outcast, a female worker at the (...)

• "Burning Secret" (1911) by Stefan Zweig

  7 September 2020 by Stefan Zweig

  In in the celebrated Austrian mountain resort of Semmering an experienced ladies’ man sets his sights on an attractive woman who has come there with her sickly twelve-year-old son for a cure, and cleverly first strikes up a friendship with the boy as a way to his mother’s heart. This stratagem is (...)

• "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" – Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history

  1 June 2019

  In this historical essay Stefan Zweig recounted in his clear, penetrating style the drama and the intensity of one of the most significant events in world history, the campaign of the young twenty-one-year-old Turkish Emperor, the Sultan Mahomet, to overcome the determined resistance of the (...)

• "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1922) by Stefan Zweig

  19 May 2019 by Stefan Zweig

  The great Viennese-Austrian author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a prolific writer of short stories, novelettes, novellas, historical studies, essays, memoirs, and letters – as well as several plays, two books of poetry, an opera libretto and one novel .
  In this 14,000-word novelette, a (...)

• "In the Snow" and other stories by Stefan Zweig

  16 April 2019 by Stefan Zweig

  Three dramatic short stories by the author of Letter From an Unknown Woman:
  1. In the Snow (1901) – Word comes to a Jewish community celebrating Hanukah in a small town in medieval Germany that a large group of religious fanatics are on their way with hate in their hearts and blood on their (...)