This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
At a small pension on the Riviera, ten years before the war, the guests are scandalised: Madame Henriette, a respectable married woman, has run off with a young Frenchman she met only the day before. Around the dinner table the argument turns ugly, and only the narrator defends her - that a woman might act, in a single day, against everything her life has been.
His defence stays with one guest. Mrs. C., an elegant Englishwoman of sixty-seven, asks him to her room after dinner, and there tells him a secret she has kept for twenty-four years: of one day and one night at the casino of Monte Carlo, of a stranger's hands at the roulette table, and of what she did to save him.
First published in 1927, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is one of Stefan Zweig's most celebrated novellas, a study of passion, compulsion and the price of a single impulse. This is an unabridged recording of the novella in a new translation.
