LetterfromanUnknownWomanandOtherStories

STEFAN ZWEIG LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES Translated from the German by Anthea Bell Contents Title Page LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN A STORY TOLD IN TWILIGHT THE DEBT PAID LATE FORGOTTEN DREAMS Also Available from Pushkin Press About the Publisher Copyright LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN W HEN R., the famous novelist, returned to Vienna early in the morning, after a refreshing three-day excursion into the mountains, and bought a newspaper at the railway station, he was reminded as soon as his eye fell on the date that this was his birthday. His forty-first birthday, as he quickly reflected, an observation that neither pleased nor displeased him. He swiftly leafed through the crisp pages of the paper, and hailed a taxi to take him home to his apartment. His manservant told him that while he was away there had been two visitors as well as several telephone calls, and brought him the accumulated post on a tray. R. looked casually through it, opening a couple of envelopes because the names of their senders interested him; for the moment he set aside one letter, apparently of some length and addressed to him in ......