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  Chess (Paperback) By (author) Stefan Zweig

  

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  Short Description for ChessA 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • Format: Paperback 96 pages
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  • Categories: Classics | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780141196305 ISBN 10: 0141196300
  • Sales rank: 33,994

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• '...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 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 genius.