Chess (Little Clothbound Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241630822
- ISBN10 0241630827
- Type BOOK
- Pages 96
- Published 2023
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
English LiteratureChess (Little Clothbound Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
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-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of the past.