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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertai ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$20.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"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 emphas ...Show more
Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassi ...Show more
Impatience of the Heart by Stefan Zweig
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The most exciting book I have ever read ...a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything ...Show more
Shooting Stars: 10 Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig "Such dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date, a single hour, even just a single minute, rarely occur in everyday life, and only rarely in the course of history." One of t ...Show more
The World of Yesterday - Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
$36.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary ...Show more
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