Author
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881, into a wealthy family. He wrote novellas, biographies and memoirs, and in the 1920s he was one of the most widely read writers in Europe. After the Nazis came to power he emigrated, lived in England and then in Brazil, where he died in 1942. The quotations in this book are translated from the German original.
Books in Livria
- Letter from an Unknown Woman
On his forty-first birthday a famous writer receives a letter with no signature. A woman writes to him at night, beside the cot of her dead son, and tells him her whole life. From the age of thirteen she lived close to…
- Chess Story
A passenger liner sails from New York to Buenos Aires. On board is the world chess champion, a man who cannot write three sentences without a mistake but charges two hundred and fifty dollars a game. A rich Scotsman…