Royal Game: A Chess Story

A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.

Info autore

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.Alexander Starritt is the author of the novels The Beast and We Germans. He is the winner of the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and has been shortlisted for the Prix Femina and Prix Médicis, among others. His translations of A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig and Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler are also published by Pushkin Press.

Riassunto

A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stefan Zweig, Stefan (Author) Zweig
• Con la collaborazione di: Alexander Starritt (Traduzione), Starritt Alexander (Traduzione)
• Editore: Pushkin Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781782278269
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-826-9
• Pagine: 112
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Chess, Board games: Chess, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Chess, Classic fiction: general and literary