Amok and Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig
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Author: Stefan ZweigTranslator: Anthea Bell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-01
ISBN: 1901285669
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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Book Review: A master of storytelling
Summary: 5 Stars
Stefan Zweig can be described as a more intellectual, more emotional and more psychological Somerset Maugham. Like Maugham, he was vitally interested in people:this comes across so strongly. He understands people. He knows how they think and how they behave. He gets inside their minds. He can do this with adults, children, sane people and temporarily insane people, (usually insane due to love.)
Try AMOK, or try Letter from an Unknown Woman. You will be hooked. Stefan Zweig grabs you from the first paragraph and doesn't let you go. How long it has been since I have tried to make a book last as long as possible, and how sad I am when the story ends. Yet even those these are rarely over a hundred pages, one feels one has read an entire rich novel.
I do not know exactly the secret of Zweig's magic. Just that he has it, and I would love to have met or known him.
Failing that, I can read him. Over and over.
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