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Chess by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But th ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, u ...Show more
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"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 emphas ...Show more
Confusion by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction
Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from h ...Show more
Confusion by Zweig Stefan Bell Anthea (Freelance translator) Prochnik George
Category: Tattoo
Confusion - The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R Von D by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography | Series: Pushkin Collection
A young student finds himself drawn ever closer to his passionate and enigmatic English teacher In the autumn of his days, a privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments in his life. He remembers sharing a lodging with a professor and his wife and a close friendship is formed. ...Show more
Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
Category: Biography
A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassi ...Show more
Fantastic Night: Tales of Longing and Liberation by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction
'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite passio ...Show more
Fear by Stefan Zweig
Category: Biography | Series: Pushkin Collection
A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehension Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a r ...Show more
Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
Category: History
Millions of people in a nation are necessary for a single genius to arise, millions of tedious hours must pass before a truly historic shooting star of humanity appears in the sky. Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Discovery of the Pacific to the c ...Show more
Impatience of the Heart by Stefan Zweig
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The most exciting book I have ever read ...a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything ...Show more