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Moments When Humanity's Star Shines

“That great moment in human life, which rarely shows humility, takes an extremely terrible revenge on those who did not know how to take advantage of it . That great moment pushes the timid ones back with contempt, and takes the indomitable creatures, another god of the earth, into his fiery arms and lifts them up to the sky of heroes. Nothing can ever bring back that single second, the second that gave him the power to control fate even though he was not worthy of it. Luck is not always generous, even to those he loves most, and it is rare that the gods have given immortals the opportunity to accomplish unforgettable deeds more than once.”

You will witness that moment that changed human history in stories from Mehmet II to Händel, from Captain Rouget to Napoleon, from Goethe to Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Lenin.

The Burning Secret

For the Baron, who spends his holiday in a hotel in the Austrian Alps, the only thing that can spice up his boring days is meeting a woman with whom he can flirt. A woman vacationing at the same hotel catches his attention. But the woman broke all his hopes with her harsh appearance. He thinks the way to impress her is to make friends with the woman's twelve-year-old son. Little Edgar, who thinks that he has not been taken seriously enough because he is a child, responds with great admiration and enthusiasm to the Baron, who treats him like an adult. After a while, the Baron uses the child to establish intimacy with his mother. While everything goes well at first, the child gradually begins to feel excluded from this trio of friendships. She begins to believe that her mother and the Baron share a secret that she does not know about, that the Baron has evil plans that will upset her mother, and that something is wrong. He embarks on a great struggle to discover this secret kept from him and to protect his mother.

Chess

Mirko Czentovic is a twelve-year-old orphan. During his stay, he came under the protection of a benevolent priest. This child, whose intelligence is doubted and ignored, turns out to be a chess genius by chance.

And years later, Mirko appears before us as the world chess champion.

He is going from New York to Buenos Aires. on a cruise ship; A rich man offers Mirko Czentovic to play a hand of chess for a fee. Mirko's invincibility, as he fights first against the rich man and then against the ship's inhabitants, who participate as both spectators and players, proves Dr. It is shaken thanks to B.

Dr. When B. could not stand watching the match and joined the players, an offer was made for him to face the champion. However, Dr. B. has recovered from a symptom called “chess poisoning” and has been banned from playing chess.

Dr., an Austrian immigrant. B. returns to the days when he was captured by the Gestapo. He was held captive in a small room for days, weeks and months. He learned all the intricacies of this game thanks to a small chess book he found by chance one day when he was taken for interrogation. There is no chessboard or pieces in front of him. At first, he plays the game completely fictionally in his mind, then with the pieces of bread he paints and the squares he creates on his sheet. His personality became two opposite colors, just like chess, and he began to experience a split personality. After he was released and treated, he never played chess again

Until that day.

This "short novel" or "long story" written by Stefan Zweig with a magnificent fiction. You will read it in one breath.

An Extraordinary Night

A young man who lives in luxury and peace thanks to his family's inheritance, gradually becomes He begins to not enjoy anything and becomes insensitive.

Spending an ordinary Sunday at horse races accidentally causes him to commit a crime.

Thanks to the excitement and pleasure of the crime, his emotions are activated again and he realizes that he is human. .

In the evening of the same day, he decides to spend time in a nearby amusement park and experiences an enlightenment in his inner world in this place visited by low-class people.

Fear

Irene, the wife of one of the capital's famous lawyers, lives a respectable life.

He has been married for eight years and has two children. However, he succumbs to his desires and forms a love affair with a young pianist who comes to the city.

On one of the days when he secretly visits the pianist, as he leaves the apartment, a woman disguised as a beggar appears before him and tells him that she has learned his secret and accuses him.

As the amount of money requested increases day by day, Irene collapses financially.

She spends more time at home because she is afraid of going out. It starts to pass. Meanwhile, his closeness with his children and his wife's mature, respectful and understanding treatment of him leaves a deep wound in his conscience, and he is dragged into the abyss spiritually.

And one day, he finds the solution to get rid of these blackmails.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Guests resting in a small hotel on the French Riviera are shaken by the news they learn one night.

Miss Henriette, who came on holiday with her husband and two children, is missing.

While everyone is worried about her life, it turns out that Miss Henriette ran away with a young Frenchman who came to the hotel a few days ago.

The guests are one. When they come together, they criticize mercilessly and discuss the moral dimension of the incident for days. However, our narrator argues that the incident should be tolerated by citing humanitarian reasons, so the debate flares up every time.

Mrs. C, an elderly and elegant lady staying at the hotel, gets encouraged by our narrator's attitude

She decides to share with him the twenty-four hours she lived years ago that turned her life upside down.

The Story of a Collapse