Books published by Pushkin Press

A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars. Including pieces on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky and Arturo Toscanini, this essential collection is also Zweig's tribute to the ideal of friendship: an ideal he clung to as the world he knew was torn apart.

A warm, candid memoir about interracial adoption, and the author's hunt for her story of origin.

The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimedmodernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of TheSpectre of Alexander Wolf.

A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.

Imprisoned in his tyrannical uncle's ruined mansion, the young hero of Adalbert Stifter's The Bachelors (Der Hagestolz) must confront his past in order to regain control of his life.

Young housewife Daisy Harker's world is upended when a blank spot in her memory and a reoccurring nightmare link her to an unsolved murder and a decades-old conspiracy.

Three macabre and confounding mysteries for the first and greatest of detectives, Auguste Dupin

"Werther Nieland was first published as Werther Nieland, 1949. The fall of the Boslowits family was first published as De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, 1950"--Title page verso.