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  Amok and Other Stories: "Amok"; "The Star Above the Forest"; "Leporella"; "Incident on Lake Geneva" (Paperback) By (author) Stefan Zweig

  

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  Short Description for Amok and Other Stories: "Amok"; "The Star Above the Forest"; "Leporella"; "Incident on Lake Geneva"Offers a collection of four stories that analyse emotional dilemmas: a doctor torn between his medical duty and his own mixed emotions; a maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter in love with an aristocratic beauty; and a First World War POW longing to be home again in Russia.
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  • Publisher: PUSHKIN PRESS
  • Published: 23 February 2007
  • Format: Paperback 118 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Classics | Short Stories | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9781901285666 ISBN 10: 1901285669
  • Sales rank: 62,857

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Full description for Amok and Other Stories: "Amok"; "The Star Above the Forest"; "Leporella"; "Incident on Lake Geneva"

• A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death; and a First World War POW longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan or colonial backgrounds in the first half of the 20th century.