The Royal Game

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Pushkin, 2001 - Fiction - 79 pages
On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a tantalising encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger. The stranger's diffident manner masks his ability to challenge the Grand Master in a game of chess, it also conceals his dark and damaged past, the horror of which emerges as the game unfolds.

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The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig
No preview available - 2007

About the author (2001)

Born in Vienna, the prolific Zweig was a poet in his early years. In the 1920s, he achieved fame with the many biographies he wrote of famous people including Balzac, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Freud. Erasmus with whom he closely identified, was the subject of a longer biography. He also wrote the novellas Amok (1922) and The Royal Game (1944). As Nazism spread, Zweig, a Jew, fled to the United States and then to Brazil. He hoped to start a new life there, but the haunting memory of Nazism, still undefeated, proved too much for him. He died with his wife in a suicide pact.

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TitleThe Royal Game
AuthorStefan Zweig
Editionreprint
PublisherPushkin, 2001
ISBN1901285111, 9781901285116
Length79 pages
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Fiction / Psychological
  
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