| Description |
272 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
A conversation with Wes Anderson -- From The World of Yesterday-Selected extracts from the memoir of Stefan Zweig -- from Beware of Pity -- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman |
| Summary |
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman.: Following the death of her husband, a middle-aged Englishwoman travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerized by the obsessive gambling of a young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair and death, changing both their lives forever |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 -- Translations into English.
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Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942,
author -- Translations into English.
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Austrian fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- France -- Fiction.
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Women -- England -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Anderson, Wes, 1969- editor
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Bell, Anthea, translator
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| ISBN |
9781782271079 (paperback) |
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