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The Last Miracle - (Pushkin Press Classics) by Stefan Zweig (Paperback)

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  • A unique collection of stories--presented together here for the first time--from one of the great voices of the European Jewish diaspora This collection from one of the great pre-war writers, himself a member of Europe's Jewish diaspora, highlights the precarious position that Jewish people have occupied throughout millennia, in stories that move across centuries and nations but show the unchanging pressure of outsider status.
  • About the Author: Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family.
  • 192 Pages
  • Non-Classifiable
  • Series Name: Pushkin Press Classics

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A unique collection of stories--presented together here for the first time--from one of the great voices of the European Jewish diaspora

This collection from one of the great pre-war writers, himself a member of Europe's Jewish diaspora, highlights the precarious position that Jewish people have occupied throughout millennia, in stories that move across centuries and nations but show the unchanging pressure of outsider status. But these stories are about individuals, too--in Zweig's treatment, the particular passions of particular hearts will always blaze out brightly against the levelling forces of history.

  • In 'Mendel the Bibliophile', a bookseller's obsession with his wares blinds him to the progress of war and the threat it poses to his own life.
  • Monomania is also an overpowering force in 'Downfall of the Heart', in which an aging father cannot accept his daughter's embrace of new freedoms.
  • 'The Miracles of Life' is a masterfully ironic tale, which plays with the tension between faith and morality, society and individual, against the backdrop of 1500s Antwerp and the Dutch rebellion against Spanish rule.
  • 'In the Snow' sees a Jewish community in medieval Eastern Europe fleeing the violence of a Christian sect.
  • And in the longest piece in the collection, the novella The Buried Candelabrum, we go all the way back to the ancient world, where the recovery of a sacred seven-branched candlestick stolen during the sack of Rome will become a young Jewish boy's life's mission.



About the Author



Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.
In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London where he wrote his only novel, Beware of Pity. He later settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.

Anthea Bell (1936-2018) ranked among the leading literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her work from German, French and Danish into English encompassed the writings of Kafka, Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Simenon, W.G. Sebald, René Goscinny, Cornelia Funke and many others.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.81 Inches (H) x 5.06 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Non-Classifiable
Series Title: Pushkin Press Classics
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Street Date: September 9, 2025
TCIN: 94433114
UPC: 9781805331834
Item Number (DPCI): 247-29-9214
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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