There is a scrape to the bottom edge of the rear panel of the dust jacket, by the foredge. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has some rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition.

Cover Art This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. Illustrated by Shirley Tuckley (illustrator). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work: * Burning Secret * A Chess Story * Fear * Confusion * Journey into the Past (Stand alone paperback editions of individual novellas from Pushkin and New York Review of Books will remain in print.) Five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique. To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction in this collection the power of his writing-which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world-is clear and irresistible. 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. Adapted with opulent attention to period detail by filmmaker and opera director Philipp Stölzl, CHESS STORY brings Stefan Zweig's stirring final novella to life.Paperback. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi regime. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo.

Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis.

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