- Published: 18 September 2017
- ISBN: 9780241305164
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 96
- RRP: $17.99
Chess
A Novel
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- Published: 18 September 2017
- ISBN: 9780241305164
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 96
- RRP: $17.99
His great achievement in short form
The Times
Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game
Economist
A new favourite writer of mine
Wes Anderson
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
Stefan Zweig was a late and magnificent bloom from the hothouse of fin de siecle Vienna
The Wall Street Journal
One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories
Edmund de Waal
A brilliant writer
New York Times