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Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Zweig, Stefan; Bell, Anthea is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) about?
On A Cruiseship Bound For Buenos Aires, A Wealthy Passenger Challenges The World Chess Champion To A Match. He Accepts With A Sneer. He Will Beat Anyone, He Says. But Only If The Stakes Are High. Soon, The Chess Board Is Surrounded. At First, The Challenger Crumbles Before The Mind Of The Master. But Then, A Soft-spoken Voice From The Crowd Begins To Whisper Nervous Suggestions. Perfect Moves, Brilliant Predictions. The Speaker Has Not Played A Game For More Than Twenty Years, He Says. He Is Wholly Unknown. But Somehow, He Is Also Entirely Formidable...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Zweig, Stefan; Bell, Anthea
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141965062
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Novela De Ajedrez (1994)
- Novela de ajedrez (Narrativa del Acantilado) (1941)
- Satranç (2012)
- A Chess Story (2013)
- Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) (2010)
- Schachnovelle (1997)
- Schachnovelle (1987)
- Chess Story (2006)
- Chess: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) (2017)
- Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) (2005)
- Satranç (2018)
- Stefan Zweig - Satranç (2014)
- Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) (2006)
- Schachnovelle (1943)
- Schachnovelle (2007)
- Mini Modern Classics Chess (Penguin Mini Modern Classics) (2011)
- Schachnovelle (2012)
- Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) (2011)
- Novela de ajedrez (Narrativa del Acantilado) (2020)
- Stefan Zweig (2014)
- Novela de ajedrez (Narrativa del Acantilado) (2001)
- Schachnovelle (2011)
- Le Joueur d'échecs (Collège) (2013)
- Chess Story (Translation by Joel Rotenberg 2006) (1941)
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