Chess (Paperback)
Stefan Zweig
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London
- Date published: 2017
- Format: Softcover
- ISBN: 9780241305164
Paperback. Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chessIn 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning world chess champion to a match. At first they lose pitifully, until a kind stranger aids by whispering instructions to them - he is a masterful chess player, and as they play, the game itself draws the stranger closer and closer to its secrets.Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of the cost of obsession, set in a Central Europe traumatized by the psychological influence of Nazism. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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