A Brief Introduction to the Novel Letter from an Unknown Woman

One of the masterpieces of the famous Austrian writer Zweig is A Letter from an Unknown Woman. It tells the story of a strange woman who wrote a touching long letter at the last moment of her life and revealed her desperate love to a famous writer. The novel describes the depth and persistence of love through a woman's most painful experience.

The short story A Letter from an Unknown Woman is one of Zweig's representative works. A man received a letter without signature and address on his 41st birthday. A dying woman told an unforgettable love story, and the hero of the story, the man who received the letter, knew nothing about it. The story began 18 years ago. When she first met a man, she was still a child. After that, she experienced a girl's obsession, youthful passion and even a dusty life, but she never changed her love for a man until her death.