Fear

by Stefan Zweig
Translated by award winner Anthea Bell

"Brilliant, unusual and haunting enough to ensure that Stefan Zweig’s time of oblivion is over for good. Zweig developed a remarkable literary and psychological method ... brought to something like perfection. The story that most clearly exemplifies Zweig’s method is Fear ... it’s good to have him back"

SALMAN RUSHDIE

"Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov - of whom he was in awe. He was formidably well read, but in his fiction he is as much at ease with the unlettered as the learned. (...) Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding"

PAUL BAILEY  TLS