Chess
A Novel
$16.06
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
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My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems …
As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madnes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241747292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241747295 |
| Author: | Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 50g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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A brilliant writer—New York TimesOne 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 JournalZweig 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, GuardianA 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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