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Chess

By Stefan Zweig
Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Translated by Anthea Bell

By Stefan Zweig
Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Translated by Anthea Bell

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Part of Little Clothbound Classics

Hardcover $18.00

Nov 12, 2024 | ISBN 9780241630822

Chess by Stefan Zweig
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Nov 12, 2024 | ISBN 9780241630822

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About Chess

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
A Penguin Classics Hardcover

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.

About 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… More about Stefan Zweig

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction

Hardcover | $18.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Nov 12, 2024 | 128 Pages | 4-3/4 x 6-9/16 | ISBN 9780241630822

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