Fear
A psychological cat and mouse hunt.... The brief, loveless affair between a bourgeois woman and a concert pianist leads to a vortex of terror, beset by danger, blackmail and fear...

"...Yet finally she was at her own front steps, stumbling towards them. As she pulled open the door, her husband was standing there, a knife in his hand, staring at her, his eyes boring into her. "Where have you been?" he asked dully, "Nowhere," she heard herself reply. A harsh guffaw sounded at her side. "I saw it all! I saw it!" the grinning woman shrieked, giggling maniacally. Her husband raised the knife. "Help!" she shouted. "Help...!""

"Fear" is an enduringly popular novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The story was adapted into a 1928 silent film "Angst" directed by Hans Steinhoff and a 1954 film "Fear" / "La Paura" directed by Roberto Rossellini.

This is a new translation by Nicholas Stephens, who has previously translated Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story,"
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Fear
A psychological cat and mouse hunt.... The brief, loveless affair between a bourgeois woman and a concert pianist leads to a vortex of terror, beset by danger, blackmail and fear...

"...Yet finally she was at her own front steps, stumbling towards them. As she pulled open the door, her husband was standing there, a knife in his hand, staring at her, his eyes boring into her. "Where have you been?" he asked dully, "Nowhere," she heard herself reply. A harsh guffaw sounded at her side. "I saw it all! I saw it!" the grinning woman shrieked, giggling maniacally. Her husband raised the knife. "Help!" she shouted. "Help...!""

"Fear" is an enduringly popular novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The story was adapted into a 1928 silent film "Angst" directed by Hans Steinhoff and a 1954 film "Fear" / "La Paura" directed by Roberto Rossellini.

This is a new translation by Nicholas Stephens, who has previously translated Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story,"
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A psychological cat and mouse hunt.... The brief, loveless affair between a bourgeois woman and a concert pianist leads to a vortex of terror, beset by danger, blackmail and fear...

"...Yet finally she was at her own front steps, stumbling towards them. As she pulled open the door, her husband was standing there, a knife in his hand, staring at her, his eyes boring into her. "Where have you been?" he asked dully, "Nowhere," she heard herself reply. A harsh guffaw sounded at her side. "I saw it all! I saw it!" the grinning woman shrieked, giggling maniacally. Her husband raised the knife. "Help!" she shouted. "Help...!""

"Fear" is an enduringly popular novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The story was adapted into a 1928 silent film "Angst" directed by Hans Steinhoff and a 1954 film "Fear" / "La Paura" directed by Roberto Rossellini.

This is a new translation by Nicholas Stephens, who has previously translated Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story,"

Product Details

BN ID: 2940161571989
Publisher: Nicholas Stephens
Publication date: 10/14/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 357 KB

About the Author

A graduate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna, Stefan Zweig is one of the early 20th century's most enduringly popular authors. A unique voice of what has come to be known as the lost world of Mitteleuropa, Zweig brought to real life the heightened social and psychological tensions of the Viennese psyche. A renowned journalist and essayist, his longer works include Chess Story and Fear, as well as the novel Beware of Pity. Fleeing the rise of Nazism, the author settled first in London and then in Brazil, before tragically taking his own life in 1942.

Nicholas Stephens has translated works by Austrian authors Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ödön von Horváth and Stefan Zweig into English. He writes about Asian artists on the Cobo Social online platform, and lives in Hong Kong. Nicholas Stephens is a graduate of Modern Languages from the University of Oxford.
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