Stefan Zweig (born November 28 1881 Vienna Austro-Hungarian Empire [now in Austria] found dead February 23 1942 Petrópolis near Rio de Janeiro Brazil) novelist biographer poet and translator was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna.

Books on set:

Chess Story
The Burning Secret
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Fantastic Night
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Amok

in the book set there are other short stories.