Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In 1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and The Royal Game (1944), but his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation.
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 *
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