Chess

 Little Clothbound Classics

Stefan Zweig

Jazyk:	anglicky
Počet stran:	128
Formát:	12 x 16,7 cm
Nakladatel:	Penguin Classics
Vazba:	pevná

Cena:	263,00 Kč

• Anotace

  Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
  
  Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
  
  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 the past.

  Review

  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

  
  

  About the Author

  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.
• Další informace

  ISBN/EAN:	9780241630822
  Překladatel:	Anthea Bell
  Rok vydání:	2023

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