A day in the life of a woman

This short novel is one of the most important works of Stefan Zweig, which reveals his great talent in expressing the human soul with all the complexity of its structure and contradictions. Therefore, Freud considered it a masterpiece. Maxim Gorky said about it: He had never read a novel as powerful in his life, and his praise of it contributed greatly to Its spread globally, and the spread of the name of its author. Through his novel, Stefan Zweig tried to address several topics that concern humans in general, and women in particular, and through his novel he discusses the issue of a person gambling his life for something. This gamble often ends in disappointment and bitterness.The novel is a secret that a widow kept for more than twenty years, before she revealed it to a young man she trusted. The duration of this secret is twenty-four hours. This woman remained loyal to her husband even after he died, but she slowly became involved, without knowing how it happened?