Perhaps no writer has been as famous since the days of Erasmus as Stefan Zweig, noted Thomas Mann on the occasion of Zweig's tenth death anniversary in 1952. Reclams' new selection includes Zweig's most important stories, from "Fear," first published in 1913, to "Episode from Lake Geneva," "Letter from an Unknown Woman," "The Prowler," "The Invisible Collection," and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman," culminating in the famous "Chess Story," his last narrative, the typescripts of which he sent from Petropolis in Brazil shortly before his suicide in 1942. All the stories showcase Zweig's unique talent for illuminating the subtleties of his characters' emotional movements and making them credible and relatable for the reader.