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Chess, Stefan Zweig
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Chess, Stefan Zweig

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A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

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Title: Chess

Original: Chess

Category: Novel

Author: Stefan Zweig

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 2017

Pgs: 90

Weight: 0.080 kg

ISBN: 978-0-241-30516-4

This book is in English

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A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

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