Chess
A Novel
Stefan Zweig author Anthea Bell translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:17th Apr '25
Should be back in stock very soon
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?
A brilliant writer—New York Times
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
ISBN: 9780241747292
Dimensions: 182mm x 112mm x 6mm
Weight: 64g
96 pages