Chess (Mini Modern Classics) - Softcover

Zweig, Stefan

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9780141196305: Chess (Mini Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0141196300 ISBN 13: 9780141196305

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

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'... 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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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)

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