Zweig, Zweig and more Zweig

Since my last post i have read a number of books by Zweig. There were two novels, Confusion and the Post Office Girl. I liked Confusion, it's a little known academic noel, but the other was heavy handed. I then read Zweig's biography of Balzac, which I liked but didn't find particularly informative as I had read another before. Then I read a slew of essays on Casanova, Tolstoy, Dickens, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Kleist, Balzac, Montaigne, Dostoevsky, and Stendhal. There were all interesting and structured in the same way: a physical description taking up a whole chapter, 2 or 3 chapters of biography with a psychological slant, and then 2-3 chapters discussing their work and their work methods.