Chess
A Novel
Seiten
2025
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-74729-2 (ISBN)
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-74729-2 (ISBN)
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems . . .
As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madness . . . and tip you over?
My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems . . .
As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madness . . . and tip you over?
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 Chess (1942), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Penguin Archive |
| Übersetzer | Anthea Bell |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 110 x 180 mm |
| Gewicht | 64 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| ISBN-10 | 0-241-74729-5 / 0241747295 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-74729-2 / 9780241747292 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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