Letter from an Unknown Woman
1922 novella by Stefan Zweig / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 1948 film, see Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film). For the 2004 film, see Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004 film).
Letter from an Unknown Woman (German: Der Brief einer Unbekannten, sometimes appearing without the definite article "der") is a novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The work first appeared in the 1 January 1922 issue of the Viennese Neuen Freien Presse,[1] before being published in book form as part of the collection Amok: Novellen einer Leidenschaft (Insel Verlag, 1922).[2] The novella tells the story of an author who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story.[3] It is generally considered to be Zweig's most famous work of fiction.[4][5][6]