Journey Into The Past

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature -- Sylvia Brownrigg The New York Times One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society -- Nicholas Lezard The Guardian Journey into the Past is vintage Stefan Zweig lucid, tender, powerful and compelling -- Chris Schuler The Independent Poignant and tender Journey into the Past is a story of repressed desire and all-consuming love between a poor, young engineer and a married woman -- Agnes Poirier New Statesman Books of the Year Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov -- Paul Bailey The art is in the telling... a powerful love story... Excellent Foreword by writer Paul Bailey -- David Herman The Jewish Chronicle