Stefan Zweig

Chess

A Novel
Übersetzer: Bell, Anthea

• Buch mit Leinen-Einband

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. 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 the past.

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Produktdetails

• Little Clothbound Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Originaltitel: Schachnovelle
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 114mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780241630822
• ISBN-10: 0241630827
• Artikelnr.: 66269583

Autorenporträt

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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