Short stories by Stefan Zweig. Golden classics of European psychological realism of the early 20th century. They were filmed by the geniuses of European and American cinema during its “golden age”: Robert Land and Max Ophüls, Etienne Perrier and Robert Siodmak. Generations of European and Russian readers grew up with them. Each of these short stories is still used today delights, plunges into rage, makes you argue with the author and his heroes, love them and hate them, condemn and forgive. The secret of such “agelessness” of Zweig’s short stories is simple - the author invariably wrote about passion. About uncontrollable, frenzied, painful love, no matter for a man or a woman, for parents or for books, for money or for a game, for adventure or for power over others. There are feelings and desires that never change. And Zweig, like no one else, knew how to describe them...