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Key facts
- Author
- Stefan Zweig
- Original title
- Schachnovelle
- Working title
- The Royal Game
- Language
- German
- Genre
- Novella
- Publisher
- Verlag Pigmalión
- Publication place
- Argentina
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Stefan Zweig
- Country of origin
- Argentina
- Main subject
- Anschluss
- Depicts
- chess master
- Narrative location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Woodcut Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig.jpg
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- form of creative work
- novel
- work available at URL
- lib.ru/INPROZ/CWEJG/chess.txt
- first line
- Auf dem großen Passagierdampfer, der um Mitternacht von New York nach Buenos Aires abgehen sollte, herrschte die übliche Geschäftigkeit und Bewegung der letzten Stunde.
- last line
- "Schade", sagte er großmütig. "Der Angriff war gar nicht so übel disponiert. Für einen Dilettanten ist dieser Herr eigentlich ungewöhnlich begabt."
- publication date
- 1942-00-00
- inception
- 2000-00-00
- Commons category
- Schachnovelle
- language of work or name
- German
- place of publication
- Sweden
- title
- Schachnovelle
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Encyclopedic overview
The Royal Game (also published as Chess and as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. The title has also been used for a collection that also includes "Amok", "Burning Secret", "Fear", and "Letter From an Unknown Woman".
Plot summary
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Royal Game” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.