Chess Story - Stefan Zweig, Chess, Chess C, ebook, pdf

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//-->PENGUIN BOOKSChessStefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881, and gained fame first as a poetand translator, and then as a biographer, short-story writer and novelist. Zweig’sfirst works were poetry and a poetic drama,Jeremia(1917), which expressed hispassionate antiwar feelings. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg toLondon to research a book on Mary, Queen of Scots. He also visited SigmundFreud, whom he had met already in the 1920s. In 1938 he became a Britishcitizen, and in 1940, after a successful lecture tour in South America, he and hissecond wife Charlotte E. Altmann settled in Brazil. Disillusioned and isolated,Zweig committed suicide with his wife, in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro on 23February 1942.Zweig’s best-known works of fiction includeBeware of Pity(1938) andChess:A Novella(1944), as well as many historical biographies of subjects as diverse asMarie Antoinette, Erasmus, Mary Queen of Scots, Magellan and Balzac.2STEFAN ZWEIGChessa novellaTranslated by Anthea Bell3PENGUIN BOOKS4PENGUIN BOOKSPublished by the Penguin GroupPenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, EnglandPenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USAPenguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of PearsonPenguin Canada Inc.)Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd)Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson AustraliaGroup Pty Ltd)Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, IndiaPenguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson NewZealand Ltd)Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South AfricaPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, Englandwww.penguin.comFirst published asSchachnovellein 1943Published as a Penguin Red Classic 2006Copyright © Stefan Zweig, 1943Translation copyright © Anthea Bell, 2006The moral right of the author and translator has been assertedExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade orotherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of bindingor cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaserISBN: 978-0-14-196506-25 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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