title: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past
author:  Stefan Zweig 
description: "As much in his novellas as in his short stories, the Austrian writers psychological acuity brought his protagonists and their dilemmas vividly to life...A rediscovery of Zweig through this book gives an enlighteningperspective on the past century and how we got where we are today." <i><b> BlogCritics.org</b></i><br /><i>Burning Secret</i><br />'Breathtaking ... the final sentence is unlike anything I have ever read before' Nicholas Lezard, <i>Guardian</i><br /><br /><i>A Chess Story </i><br />'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' <i>Economist</i><br /><br /><i>Fear</i><br />'Brilliant, unusual and haunting ... Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good' Salman Rushdie, <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br /><i>Confusion</i><br />'A marvellously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires' Robert Macfarlane, <i>TLS</i><br /><i></i><br /><i>Journey into the Past</i><br />'Vintage Stefan Zweig--lucid, tender, powerful and compelling<i>' Independent</i>
zlib_text: STEFAN ZWEIG (1881–1942), novelist, biographer, poet, and translator, was born
  in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied at the
  Universities of Berlin and Vienna. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from
  Salzburg to London (taking British citizenship), to New York, and finally to
  Brazil, where he committed suicide with his wife. In addition to this new
  translation of _Schachnovelle_ , New York Review Books has published Zweig’s
  novels _Beware of Pity_ and _The Post-Office Girl_ , as well as his novella
  _Journey into the Past_.  
  
  PETER GAY was born in Berlin in 1923 and emigrated to the United States along
  with his family as a teenager. He has written many works of social and
  intellectual history, including _The Enlightenment: An Interpretation_ , which
  won the National Book Award, _Schnitzler’s Century_ , and several studies of
  Freud. He is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.
  
   **CHESS STORY**
  
   **STEFAN ZWEIG**
  
   _Translated from the German by_
  