Chess
A Novel
$16.31
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2017
Summary
Stefan Zweig’s classic novella of obsession, madness and chess.
In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning world chess champion to a match. At first they lose pitifully, until a kind stranger aids by whispering instructions to them - he is a masterful chess player, and as they play, the game itself draws the stranger closer and closer to its secrets.
Stefan Zweig’s acclaimed novella Chess is a dist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241305164 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241305160 |
| Author: | Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A brilliant writer * New York Times *One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig’s stories – Edmund de WaalStefan Zweig was a late and magnificent bloom from the hothouse of fin de siecle Vienna * The Wall Street Journal *Zweig is one of the masters of the short story and novella, and by ‘one of the masters’ I mean that he’s up there with Maupassant, Chekhov, James, Poe, or indeed anyone you care to name – Nick Lezard * Guardian *A new favourite writer of mine – Wes AndersonPerhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game – EconomistHis great achievement in short form * The Times *
About The Author
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig’s best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and Chess (1942), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.
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