A brilliant writer-- New York Times One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories--Edmund de Waal Stefan Zweig was a late and magnificent bloom from the hothouse of fin de siecle Vienna-- The Wall Street Journal Zweig is one of the masters of the short story and novella, and by 'one of the masters' I mean that he's up there with Maupassant, Chekhov, James, Poe, or indeed anyone you care to name--Nick Lezard, Guardian A new favourite writer of mine--Wes Anderson Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game--Economist His great achievement in short form-- The Times.