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Title: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1-901285-48-0 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a woman can do in 24 hours...
Comment: In this framed narrative Stefan Zweig explores the sudden impulse that makes a woman toss her respectability, peace of mind and a good lump of money out of the window. Compulsion, obsession and impulses are important themes in Zweig's works and you'll find plenty of it in this small and powerful book. If you ever felt the tug of passion (some may call it life) dragging you away to the ocean you'll adore this book. I certainly did.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Little Gem of a Novel
Comment: Perhaps not as psychologically compelling and taut as some of Zweig's other work, this novella is still worth reading for it's fine writing. At a hotel in Monte Carlo in the days after World War I, a group of wealthy travelers are shocked to learn that a married woman of their set has suddenly left her husband and family on the arms of a seducer whom she has known less then twenty-four hours. Each guest chimes in with their opinion of the woman's extraordinary behavior. Our narrator expresses his understanding of the woman's actions while the others vehemently condemn the lady. Suddenly he finds himself the confidante of an older woman who is in the group. She tells him the tale of how twenty years earlier she too had been drawn to an intense younger man who she observed in the casino one evening. Zweig explores the motivations and the ramifications of a sudden act of passion.
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Title: Confusion : The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1901285227 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Casanova by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ISBN: 1901285189 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig ISBN: 0803252242 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Collection/Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, Cedar ISBN: 1901285006 Publisher: Pushkin Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Royal Game & Other Stories by Stefan Zweig, Jill Sutcliffe ISBN: 0841914060 Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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