Chess
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-Smith
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.
$24.95
November 12, 2024Stefan 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 Chess (1942), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.
Tales from the Dual Monarchy
Stefan Zweig
Chess
Stefan Zweig; Translated by Anthea Bell; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Six Stories
Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chess
Stefan Zweig
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf
About Love
Anton Chekhov
Summer
Edith Wharton
The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bliss
Katherine Mansfield
The Star-Child
Oscar Wilde
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Passing
Nella Larsen