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Chess by Stefan Zweig
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
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 th ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, u ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig; Eden Paul (Translator); Cedar Paul (Translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots. From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power stru ...Show more
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator); Alexander Starritt (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by ...Show more
The Royal Game: A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
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