An expatriate doctor on the verge of a nervous breakdown in a remote outpost in the Dutch East Indies receives the visit of an elegant lady from the European community in the area’s capital who offers him a large sum of money to perform an illegal operation. Although he does need the money, her arrogant and humiliating attitude provokes him into making her a dishonourable counter-proposition that she tauntingly refuses. Losing all sense of reason and his mental equilibrium, he runs amok – (…)
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THE 26 STEFAN ZWEIG TEXTS ON THIS SITE
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"Amok" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
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"Chess Story (Schachnovelle)" by Stefan Zweig (1942)
25 October 2021, by Stefan ZweigHaving learned that the world chess champion is on board the ship that’s taking him from New York to Buenos Aires, the narrator organises a match at high stakes – the hard-nosed champion only plays for money – against the combined forces of the chess enthusiasts on the boat. The champion scornfully humiliates them but in the revenge match a bystander intervenes to prevent the group from playing the obvious move, and then plays the rest of the game to a draw. Recognizing the force of the (…)
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"Mendel the Book-dealer (Buchmendel)" by Stefan Zweig (1929)
5 October 2021, by Stefan ZweigThe narrator recounts how he had taken shelter unexpectedly in a suburban café where he suddenly remembered having met twenty years before Mendel, a book-handler who possessed a phenomenal memory for the slightest details of any book he had ever seen or read about.
Famous in his day, he had now been quite forgotten by everyone in the café where he had officiated all day every day, except by the washerwoman who recounts the sad fate of the famous expert whose life, like so many others, had (…) -
"The Invisible Collection" (1925) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
24 October 2020, by Stefan ZweigTABLE 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 factory who has been brutalised because of her ugliness. (1,400 words)
2. THE STAR OVER THE FOREST (1904) The waiter François is suddenly stricken with a slavish worship for the elegant countess (…) -
"Burning Secret" by Stefan Zweig (1911)
7 September 2020, by Stefan ZweigIn 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 brilliantly successful, but the baron makes the mistake of ignoring the boy from then on.
This 23,000-word novella is one of Stefan Zweig’s best-known works – with Letter From an Unknown Woman (…) -
"The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" – Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history (1940)
1 June 2019In this brilliant 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 thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire, then centred in the historic centre of the Eastern Orthodox faith, the ancient city of Constantinople with its magnificent cathedral and its impregnable (…)
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"Letter From an Unknown Woman" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
19 May 2019, by Stefan ZweigThe great Viennese-Austrian author Stefan Zweig 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 famous story, often filmed, a well-known novelist returns home after a holiday in the mountains to find a long letter awaiting him there from a woman he had once known but quite forgotten. She on the other hand has never forgotten him, for good (…) -
"In the Snow" (1901) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
16 April 2019, by Stefan ZweigThree 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 hands (4,400 words);
2. The Cross (1906) – A French officer is cut off behind enemy lines after an ambush during the Napoleonic War in Spain and desperately tries to survive amid the immeasurable (…) -
INDEX OF THE 26 STEFAN ZWEIG TEXTS ON THIS SITE
1 January 2019, by Ray=> in alphabetic sequence by English title(s) => in alphabetic sequence by the original German title
ENGLISH TITLES
A STORY TOLD IN TWILIGHT AMOK AN UNFORGETTABLE MAN BUCHMENDEL BURNING SECRET CHESS STORY FANTASTIC NIGHT FEAR FORGOTTEN DREAMS IN THE SNOW LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN MENDEL THE BOOK-DEALER MOONBEAM ALLEY SCARLET FEVER SPRING IN THE PRATER SPRINGTIME IN THE PRATER THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE THE CROSS THE DEBT PAID LATE THE FANTASTIC NIGHT THE GOVERNESS THE INVISIBLE (…)