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Chess Story

Stefan Zweig

Chess Story

Paper book: €17.99

Digital: €5.99

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

A world champion who can barely read. In a remote village, a priest raises Mirko, a very slow-witted boy. At fourteen, Mirko still counts on his fingers and struggles to read.

The world of the book

Vienna, 1938: a hotel becomes a prison. In March 1938, Hitler’s Germany takes control of Austria. In Vienna, the Nazis’ secret police, the Gestapo, moves into a grand hotel, the Metropole. In the story, this is where…

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