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ABOUT THE BOOK
This new selection of novellas, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, begins with Did He Do It? A curious whodunit set in England, it nonetheless has the extraordinary psychological insight that typifies Zweig’s best work. The Miracles of Life explores the conflicting forces of belief and art, love and obsession, amidst the religious struggles of Renaissance Antwerp. Finally, two Viennese stories, The Governess and Downfall of the Heart are shattering in their portrayal of disillusionment—two little girls move from cosy chidlhood to the cold glare of adulthood in a single morning, and a father’s heart breaks irrevocably.
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 978 1906548 35 3
174 pages
