The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig

Vintage Zweig * The Times *
Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov -- Paul Bailey
Breathtaking ... the final sentence [of Burning Secret] is unlike anything I have ever read before -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
[A Chess Story is] perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game * Economist *
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig, which I had never read despite a long and ardent admiration of Zweig, includes Burning Secret, about a boy and childish passion, which wrings the heart -- Antonia Fraser * New Statesman, Books of the Year 2017 *
Zweig's writing is some of the most brilliant of the 20th century. His novellas all begin so innocently. By the time they have ended, you feel he has prised you open, played with your own sympathies, and exposed you to your own imperfect humanity * Independent *
A captivating mix...[Zweig] generates momentum out of extremes in thought and feeling, the turbulent negotiations between inner and exterior lives, but he is happiest in mixed feelings, in detecting minute alterations in head and heart * Independent *
[Confusion is] a marvellously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires -- Robert MacFarlane * Times Literary Supplement *
Vintage Stefan Zweig-[Journey into the Past is] lucid, tender, powerful and compelling * Independent *
[Fear is] brilliant, unusual and haunting ... Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good -- Salman Rushdie * The New York Times *
A rediscovery of Zweig through this book gives an enlightening perspective on the past century and how we got where are today... As much in his novellas as in his short stories, the Austrian writer's psychological acuity brought his protagonists and their dilemmas vividly to life * BlogCritics! *
Zweig brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of German-speaking central Europe: cultured, humane, but unable to overcome its inner demons and political madness -- David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *
'Zweig was a master of the miniature. He excelled at the novella' -- Oliver Kamm * Jewish Chronicle *