The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

There is no doubt this is a wonderful collection, bringing together a number of Anthea Bell's excellentpreviously published translations with some new ones never before available in English. But this is "collected stories" not "complete" stories and in the absence of any introductory material, it's difficult to work out why certain works have not been included. The most obvious omission is Zweig's famous chess story The Royal Game. Now a lot of Zweig's work hovers in the long short story / novella vein but The Royal Game is actually shorter than other stories which are included here. And there are other novellas published by Pushkin Press which have also been ignored. Maybe it was felt the volume was too bulky already, maybe a volume called Collected Novellas is planned (that would be great!) but however you look at it, this volume does not contain all the stories Zweig wrote.

A beautifully produced volume of less familiar Stefan Zweig's shorter fiction. Strongly recommended!

Zweig is a fantastic writer and this book of short stories are another example. It is nice to read it in a coffee house after a long working day with a cup of americano. Short , easy and wonderful novellas

I should be clear: Zweig is one of my favorite writers, and the A. Bell translations that Pushkin Press has been publishing over the past decade are top-notch. So I was excited to see that the collected short stories were now available in a hardcover from Pushkin Press. I received this collection today and am extremely disappointed. Although Pushkin Press gave this collection (and the others that accompany it) a snazzy cover, with bright color and a nice little cover design, the binding has been cheaply glued. This will, as you know, crack over time. For such a collection, and for such an important writer, you would have thought Pushkin would have invested a bit more in ensuring that the binding was sewn, not glued.So, yes, buy this collection if you don't care about such matters and want to experience one of the greatest 20th century writers. But if you care about a collection that will last, one that you might be proud to own, this is an overpriced 700-page mound of cheaply produced garbage.

excellent