Download or read book Amok and Other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DOCTOR IN the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book AMOK Zweig written by Zweig Stefan and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Zweig was born on November 28, 1881, in Vienna and is one of the most important European authors of the first half of the 20th century. Jewish, he was persecuted by the Nazis and forced into exile. His final resting place was in Brazil, where he met a tragic end. A versatile writer, Zweig devoted himself to almost all literary activities but became famous mainly for his novellas, many of which were translated into various languages, as well as adapted for the stage and cinema. Stefan Zweig is always synonymous with emotion, passion, and tragedy, on all levels. His novellas fill us with love, but above all with great pain, which is universal to most of his deeply human characters. In this work, the reader will discover Stefan Zweig's immense talent and creativity through two of his most famous novellas: "Amok" and "Beware of Pity."
Download or read book Amok written by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Amok: Novellen einer Leidenschaft' (1922), eine Novellensammlung von Stefan Zweig, enth�lt die Novellen: 'Der Amokl�ufer', 'Die Frau und die Landschaft', 'Phantastische Nacht', 'Brief einer Unbekannten', und 'Die Mondscheingasse'.
Download or read book Amok and other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in one volume for the first time: 22 classic short stories of love and death, betrayal and hope—from a master storyteller hailed as “the Updike of his day” (New York Observer) In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form. Perfectly paced and brimming with passion, these 22 tales from one of the great storytellers of the 20th century are translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Included: Forgotten Dreams In the Snow The Miracles of Life The Star Above the Forest A Summer Novella The Governess Twilight A Story Told in Twilight Wondrak Compulsion Moonbeam Alley Amok Fantastic Night Letter from an Unknown Woman The Invisible Collection Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman Downfall of the Heart Incident on Lake Geneva Mendel the Bibliophile Leporella Did He Do It? The Debt Paid Late
Download or read book The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful new paperback edition of this collection containing five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas. 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. 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 of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world--is clear and irresistible. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique. This edition includes five powerful novellas: Burning Secret A Chess Story Fear Confusion Journey into the Past
Download or read book Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joane Fontaine. Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude to her childhood sweetheart. Expertly paced, laced with the acutely accurate psychological detail and empathy that are Zweig's trademarks, this is a powerful addition to Pushkin's growing collection of his work.
Download or read book The Invisible Collection written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar deception of the collector himself... Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for ever.
Download or read book Amok written by Stefan Zweig and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
Download or read book Amok written by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Book Review Digest: "A German doctor, degraded by a life of loneliness in the Dutch East Indies, runs amuck when he is overcome with remorse at having refused the appeal of a woman who sought his aid. He himself tells his story to a fellow passenger on a steamer returning to Europe, before he commits suicide in a last effort to guard the woman's secret."
Download or read book Burning Secret written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new edition of a darkly “touching and delightful” tale of seduction, jealousy, and betrayal from the master of the novella (The New York Times) Bored on holiday at an Austrian mountain resort, the suave Baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar’s mother. But when his initial advances are rejected, he must turn to other means to carry out his seduction. Instead, he lavishes his attention on Edgar, deploying all of his adult charms and wiles to befriend the boy and get closer to the woman he desires. The initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but he has no idea of the burning secret that is driving the affair—and that it will soon change his life forever.
Download or read book Fear written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother predictable after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover’s former mistress begins blackmailing her, threatening to give her secret away to her husband. Irene is soon in the grip of agonizing fear. Written in the spring of 1913, and first published in 1920, this novella is one of Stefan Zweig’s most powerful studies of a woman’s mind and emotions. La Paura (1954) the Roberto Rossellini film based on the Stefan Zweig novel Fear was the last of the extraordinary features in which Rossellini directed Ingrid Bergman, who was then his wife.
Download or read book Amok Classic Reprint written by Stefan Zweig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Amok Todas las caras me eran familiares hasta la sacie dad; la aguda risa de las mujeres me excitaba, y la ruid°sa disputa de dos °ficiales holandeses me pro dacia irritación. El único recurso que me quedaba era el de irme; pero el camar°te estaba muy caliente y cargad° de vaho, y en el salón d°s muchachas ingle sas picoteaban valses en el piano. Finalmente, cam bié el °rden de las cosas; desapareci metiéndome en el camar°te ya avanzada la tarde, tras de haberme aturdido c°n algunos vasos de cerveza, y así d°rmí durante la cena y el baile. Cuand° me desperté, el pequeño ataúd, que era mi cabina, estaba obscuro y la atmósfera era pesada. Se había parad° el ventilador, y el aire grasiento y húmc do se p°saba en mis sienes. Tenia l°s sentidos embota dos. Necesité algun°s minut°s para darme cuenta del tiempo y del lugar. Seguramente habia pasado ya la media n°che, pues no se °ía la música ni el ruido de l°s pasos; s°lamente la máquina, el palpitante corazón de Leviathan, empujaba jadeante el casc° del buque ha cia l° invisible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Montaigne written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise. One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty.
Download or read book Guys and Guns Amok written by Douglas Kellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced through all of these events. In Guys and Guns Amok, media and cultural critic Douglas Kellner provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of these acts of domestic terrorism. Skillfully connecting each case with the current environment for male socialization and the search for identity in an American culture obsessed with guns and militarism, Kellner's work is a sobering reflection on these tragedies and the pervasive power of media and popular culture as well as a wake-up call for the future.
Download or read book Stefan Zweig and World Literature written by Birger Vanwesenbeeck and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.
