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The invisible collection : tales of obsession and desire / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Pushkin Press, 2015Description: 376 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781782271499 (paperback)
  • 178227149X (paperback)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PT2653.W42 A2 2015b
Contents:
The invisible collection -- Twilight -- The miracles of life -- A story told in twilight -- Wondrak [unfinished] -- Downfall of the heart -- Leporella -- Did he do it? -- Amok -- The star above the forest.
Summary: "Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for ever"--Page 4 of cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection ZWE 1 Available T00588292
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of brilliant short stories from a master of the form.

"Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for ever"--Page 4 of cover.

The invisible collection -- Twilight -- The miracles of life -- A story told in twilight -- Wondrak [unfinished] -- Downfall of the heart -- Leporella -- Did he do it? -- Amok -- The star above the forest.

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