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Language: English
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2007
- First Edition
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- Title
- The Chess Machine
- Author
- Lohr, Robert
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594201269
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201264
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.312 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
In the aftermath of the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public throughout the course of a sensational tour, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspicion.
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About the Author
Robert LÂhr was born in Berlin and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 news and for the Berlin daily paper Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zeit, and Taz, and finally as a correspondent for The Washington Post. After many years writing screenplays, musicals, plays, and short stories, LÂhr decided to try his hand at a novel. The Chess Machine is his first.
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