Fear Read online

  Among other Stefan Zweig titles published by

  PUSHKIN PRESS

  The World of Yesterday

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Amok and Other Stories

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Beware of Pity

  Translated by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt

  Casanova

  A Study in Self-Portraiture

  Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul

  Confusion

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Twilight

  Moonbeam Alley

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Wondrak and Other Stories

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Journey into the Past

  Translated by Anthea Bell

  Burning Secret

  Translated by Anthea Bell

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  Copyright

  English translation © Anthea Bell

  Fear first published in German as Angst 1920

  © Williams Verlag Zurich

  Print edition first published in 2010 by

  Pushkin Press

  12 Chester Terrace

  London NW1 4ND

  This ebook edition first published in 2011

  ISBN 978 1 906548 56 8

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Pushkin Press

  Cover Woman at a Mirror c1906 Heinrich Kuhn

  © Ackland Fund Chapel Hill

  Frontispiece Stefan Zweig

  © Roger-Viollet Rex Features

  Set in 10.5 on 13.5 Baskerville MT

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