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The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide.
- Stefan Zweig
- 1943
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.
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Mar 22, 2012 · The royal game & other stories. by. Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Fowles, John, 1926-2005; Sutcliffe, Jill. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Short stories, Fiction, Fiction - General, Manners and customs. Publisher. New York : E.P. Dutton.
There's an informative and thoughtful introduction by John Fowles, followed by 5 of Zweig's finest novellas - 'The Royal Game' (aka 'Chess'), 'Amok', 'The Burning Secret', 'Fear' and 'Letter From An Unknown Woman'. Zweig was a true master of the novella, and every one of these is compulsive reading.
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Apr 1, 2000 · The Royal Game and Other Stories is a collection of five of Stefan Zweig's brilliant and creative psychological thrillers. Filled with emotional extreme from obsessive love to pathological revenge to the madness caused by an imaginary chess game these masterpieces revive his art, making it once again available to a new generation of readers.
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- Stefan Zweig
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- Holmes n Meier Publishers, Inc.
Oct 16, 2020 · The Royal Game (translated) Kindle Edition. by Stefan Zweig (Author), Philip Knueppel (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.5 71 ratings. See all formats and editions. The fame of the "The Royal Game" is evident in the number of translations.
- Stefan Zweig
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Aug 31, 2007 · The Royal Game Kindle Edition. by Stefan Zweig (Author), B W Huebsch (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 52 ratings. See all formats and editions. On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger.
- Stefan Zweig
