Stefan Zweig

Broschiertes Buch

Chess

A Novel

Übersetzer: Bell, Anthea

Beschreibung

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?

Autor

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.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Archive
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 106mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 64g
• ISBN-13: 9780241747292
• ISBN-10: 0241747295
• Artikelnr.: 72105919