About “Brief einer Unbekannten”
Letter from an Unknown Woman is a novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was first published on 1 January 1922 in the Viennese newspaper Neuen Freien Presse, and later included in the 1922 collection Amok: Novellen einer Leidenschaft. The story follows an author who reads a letter from a woman he does not recognize, learning about her life through her words. The novella is widely regarded as Zweig's most famous work of fiction. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Praise for “Brief einer Unbekannten”
“Touching and delightful. Those adjectives are not meant as faint praise. Zweig may be especially appealing now because rather than being a progenitor of big ideas, he was a serious entertainer, and an ardent and careful observer of habits, foibles, passions and mistakes.”
Book details
- Published
- 1922
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Brief einer Unbekannten by Stefan Zweig has 160 pages.
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