Chess

Author: Stefan Zweig

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ISBN : 9780141196305
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.066
Publication date : 01 January 2011
Dimensions : 161mm X 111mm X 7mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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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.

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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 for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and The Royal Game (1944), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.