Chess Story

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed...
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Author: Stefan Zweig
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Chess Story by Zweig, Stefan

Chess Story

$30.33

Chess Story

$30.33
Author: Stefan Zweig
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.

Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.

This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.

Author: Stefan Zweig
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 12/09/2005
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.06w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781590171691

About the Author
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), novelist, biographer, poet, and translator, was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. During the 1930s, he was one of the best-selling writers in Europe, and was among the most translated German-language writers before the Second World War. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg to London (taking British citizenship), to New York, and finally to Brazil, where he committed suicide with his wife. New York Review Books has published Zweig's novels The Post-Office Girl and Beware of Pity as well as the novella Chess Story.

Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He wrote Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914.

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