This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered,
old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its
kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to
see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar
deception of the collector himself... Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular
writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of
extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the
movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person
towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for
ever.