Chess by Stefan Zweig
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'
A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.
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Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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Giovanni's Room
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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A Month in the Country
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East of Eden
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In Cold Blood
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Brideshead Revisited
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Lolita
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Death of a Salesman
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Tokyo Express
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Lonely Londoners
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Things Fall Apart
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
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The Post Office Girl
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Beware of Pity
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The World of Yesterday
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The Society of the Crossed Keys
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Montaigne
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Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
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Six Stories
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Schachnovelle
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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Journeys
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Burning Secret
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A Chess Story
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Impatience of the Heart
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Marie Antoinette
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A Game of Chess and Other Stories: New Translation
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Magellan
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Shooting Stars
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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Confusion
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The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
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Journey Into The Past
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The Royal Game
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Burning Secret And Other Stories
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 Waal
Stefan 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 Anderson
Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game -- Economist
His great achievement in short form * The Times *
One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories -- Edmund de Waal
Stefan 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 Anderson
Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game -- Economist
His great achievement in short form * The Times *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780241305164 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241305160 |
| Title | Chess |
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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