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Chess Story

Stefan Zweig

Chess Story

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1942
Pages
167
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Psychology, History
Moods
Get the chills, Think it through, Be moved to tears
Translated from
German

Book summary

The world chess champion is travelling on a liner from New York to Buenos Aires. He is a cold, almost illiterate man, unbeatable at the chessboard. A few passengers challenge him and lose, until a stranger, Dr B., joins the game and puts him in difficulty.

This short story, Stefan Zweig's last, keeps you in suspense right to the end and slowly reveals the stranger's secret.

You can read it in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

Um campeão mundial que mal sabe ler. Em um vilarejo isolado, um padre cria Mirko, um garoto de raciocínio muito lento. Aos catorze anos, Mirko ainda conta nos dedos e lê com dificuldade.

The world of the book

Viena, 1938: um hotel vira prisão. Em março de 1938, a Alemanha de Hitler assume o controle da Áustria. Em Viena, a polícia secreta nazista, a Gestapo, se instala em um grande hotel, o Metropole. Na história, é ali que…

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