It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweigs final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. Penguin UK 4.4 star 32 reviews Ebook 80 Pages familyhome Eligible info 8.45 Ebook Free sample About this ebook arrowforward On a cruiseship bound for.He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of the past. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family.

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