by Stefan Zweig
ANTHEA BELL
2009
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Translation copyright © 2009 by Anthea Bell
Introduction copyright © 2011 by André Aciman
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Originally published as Widerstand der Wirklichkeit, 1987
Translation published by arrangement with Pushkin Press Ltd.
Cover image: Cover image: Léon Spilliaert, Interior, 1909
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Zweig, stefan, 1881–1942.
[Widerstand der Wirklichkeit. English]
Journey into the past / by Stefan Zweig ; introduction by André Aciman; translated [from the German] by Anthea Bell.
p. cm. —(New York Review Books Classics)
ISBN 978-1-59017-367-1 (alk. paper)
1. Young men—Germany—Fiction. 2. Married women—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. 4. Love stories. I. Bell, Anthea. II. Title.
PT2653.W42W5313 2010
833'.912—dc22
2010016526
ebook ISBN: 978-1-59017-412-8
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