Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (collection)

Novellas by Stefan Zweig are a recognized classic of European psychological realism of the early 20th century.

They were adapted for the screen by masters of European and American cinema of its “golden age”: Robert Land and Max Ophüls, Étienne Périer and Robert Siodmak.

Many generations of readers in Europe and Russia grew up on these stories.

And today each novella continues to work with unfailing force: it delights and irritates, provokes argument with the author and the characters, makes one alternately sympathize with them, reject them, condemn them, or find excuses for them.

The reason for this timeless relevance is simple: Zweig writes again and again about passion — uncontrollable, frenzied, sometimes painful. About love and obsession — for a man or a woman, for relatives or books, for money or gambling, for risk and adventure, or for power over others.

There are feelings and desires that do not age. And Zweig knew how to speak about them like few others…