'The Invisible Collection' — Stefan Zweig

Time to take a reading break, what?

Whatever it is you're doing most likely can wait for a while.

Stefan Zweig's 1925 story is about a collector on the hunt for an elusive Berlin art dealer.

The fact that it's still vibrant and absorbing explains why 99 years after publication it deserves pride of place here.

Though most likely you'd never heard of him before this post, the Austrian writer at the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s was one of the most popular and widely translated writers in the world.

The story is free, the way we like it.