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Chess
A Penguin Classics Hardcover
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 the past.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2024
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.40in - 4.50in - 0.60in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9780241630822
- Categories: • Classics• Literary• Psychological
About the Author
Coralie Bickford-Smith (cover illustration) is an award-winning designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several highly acclaimed series designs. She studied typography at Reading University and lives in London.
Praise for this book
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
