Synopsis
The exile to the solitude of Madame de Prie in the days of Luis XV, the wandering over enemy earth of a coronel of the troops of Napoleon among the martyred bodies of his subordinates, or the obsessive and submissive love beyond the death of a European doctor in colonial India are some of the plots of this suggestive book of stories by Stefan Zweig. The fight of men over their passions, the tragedy of destinies crushed by fortune and the pain acting as survival influence are intensely inscribed in each of these sober and touching narrations of one of the writers most appreciated by the public of our time.

About the author
Stephan Zweig, Vienna, (1881-1942) being the son of a powerful industrialist received a careful education. During his years of youth he traveled across Europe working as a translator and writing for different publications. When World War I exploded, he showed his pacifist position. Because of the growing imposition of the Nazi forces in Austria, he emigrated to London. Of his literary production stand out: Cuerdas de plata (Silver Cords), a book that reunites his poetry, and novels like Jeremías, Amok, El jugador de ajedrés (The chess player), or La confusión de los sentimientos (The feelings confusion.) He also wrote the biographies of some of the greatest celebrities of literature such as Dickens or Balzac.