Fear
Irene Wagner leads a comfortable and carefree life with her husband and two children. However, after eight years of marriage, dances, theater, opera and other social activities seem predictable and bland....
ZWEIG, Stefan
Beware of Pity
Hofmiller, a young officer in a provincial city, visits a local noble family. The father is rich, and has a daughter who suffers from paralysis. Moved by piety and compassion, he begins to visit her...
Chess Story
Dr. B. is a discreet Austrian lawyer who is arrested by the Gestapo to extract information from him. To prevent his mind from giving in to torture, the doctor devotes himself to memorizing 150 chess games....
Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky
Brief biography of these three writers. Zweig tries to study the general lines of their works, making a psychological profile both of the authors and their main characters. The authors' biographical details...