The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig

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.