AVAILABLE in APRIL 2011
ABOUT THE BOOK
These four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig’s subject matter dating
from quite early in his career as a writer of fiction (The Governess,
rooted in a world of strict Edwardian morality), to late (Did He Do It?,
almost an English detective story set near Bath, where Zweig lived in exile).
In addition The Miracles of Life, set in 16th-century Antwerp during the
time of Protestant iconoclasm, and Downfall of a Heart both address the
theme of anti-Semitism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEFAN ZWEIG was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish
family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and
translator, and later as a biographer. Zweig traveled widely, living in Salzburg
between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were
collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism he briefly moved
to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he
settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an
apparent double suicide.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
ANTHEA BELL is the recipient of the Schlegel Tieck
Prize for translation from German, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and
the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 2002 for the translation of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz,
and the 2003 Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation. She lives in
Cambridge, England.
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Cover illustration Heinrich Kuhn
ISBN 9781906548 353
174 pages
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