'This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old
art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acqu
ired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he fin
ds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar deception of the col
lector himself...Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fi
ction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of a
ll that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a you
ng heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will sta
y with the reader for ever.
