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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
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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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.
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Mar 22, 2012 · The royal game & other stories by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Fowles, John, 1926-2005; Sutcliffe, Jill
Dec 3, 2021 · STUDIOCANAL International. 11.5K subscribers. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo.
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Oct 16, 2020 · The Royal Game (translated) - Kindle edition by Zweig, Stefan, Knueppel, Philip. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Royal Game (translated).
- Stefan Zweig
The Royal Game. Stefan Zweig. Pushkin Press, Aug 31, 2007 - Fiction - 96 pages. On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess...
