Novels by Stefan Zweig . Golden classics of European psychological realism of the early 20th century . They were screened by the geniuses of European and American cinema during his “golden age”: Robert Land and Max Ophls, Etienne Perrier and Robert Sdmak .. Generations of European and Russian readers have grown up on them. Each of these novels is now admired, enraged, makes you argue with the author and his characters, love them and hate, condemn and forgive. The secret of this “agelessness” of Zweig’s novels is simple the author invariably wrote about passion. Uncontrollable, intense, painful love, whether to a man or woman, to parents or to books, to money or to play, to adventure or to power over others. There are feelings and desires that never change. And Zweig, like no one, knew how to describe them...