The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America.
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great ...
When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds.
Stefan Zweig's last and most...
When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger c...
Sie sind auf der Suche nach einer neuen Menschlichkeit: Zweifel an der eigenen Identitat und die Suche nach Gott treibt die Menschen in Stefan Zweigs Legenden ebenso an wie die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens: Wie traditionelle Legenden sind diese funf Erzahlungen Wegweiser und Mahnmal zugleich. Inhalt: Rahel rechtet mit Gott Die Augen des ewigen Bruders Der begrabene Leuchter Die Legende der dritten Taube Die gleich-ungleichen Schwestern"
Sie sind auf der Suche nach einer neuen Menschlichkeit: Zweifel an der eigenen Identitat und die Suche nach Gott treibt die Menschen in Stefan Zweigs ...
In der modernen Neuzeit erhalt Emile Verhaeren die Schonheit der Sprache. Dieser Sammelband vereint Essays und Texte seines langjahrigen Freundes Stefan Zweig, in denen er seine Erinnerungen an den beruhmten belgischen Dichter aufleben lasst."
In der modernen Neuzeit erhalt Emile Verhaeren die Schonheit der Sprache. Dieser Sammelband vereint Essays und Texte seines langjahrigen Freundes Stef...
Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at fairly long intervals, their essential uniformity has prompted Zweig to bring these three great novelists of the nineteenth century together; to show them as writers who, for the very reason that they contrast with each other, also complete one another in ways which makes them round our concept of the epic portrayers of the...
Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different natio...
