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Amok by Stefan Zweig (Author)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisi ...Show more
BEWARE OF PITY by ZWEIG STEFAN
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Stefan Zweig's brilliant novel, Beware of Pity, is an original and powerful work."-The New York Times The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even ...Show more
Beware Of Pity by Stefan Zweig
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1913, a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastatingly unindulgent portrayal of the to ...Show more
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Author)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life...Burning Secret is a witty, potent look at ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Confusion by Zweig Stefan Bell Anthea (Freelance translator) Prochnik George
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Confusion by Stefan Zweig
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from h ...Show more
Fantastic Night: Tales of Longing and Liberation by Stefan Zweig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite passio ...Show more
Fear by Stefan Zweig
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: near fine
A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehension Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a r ...Show more
Impatience of the Heart by Stefan Zweig
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The most exciting book I have ever read ...a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything ...Show more