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Informationen zum 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 The Royal Game (1944)! but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies! which were based on psychological interpretation. Klappentext A novella set aboard a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires. Zusammenfassung '... 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.
