Description: "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 Quotes: 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