Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Zweig, Stefan

 
9780241305164: Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241305160 ISBN 13: 9780241305164
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

'... 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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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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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241305160
ISBN 13 
9780241305164
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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