Amok and Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig | 
The Confusions of Young Torless
by Robert Musil | 
Dream Story
by Arthur Schnitzler | 
Fear
by Stefan Zweig | 
Twilight and Moonbeam Alley
by Stefan Zweig | 
Correction
by Thomas Bernhard |
The Left-Handed Woman
by Peter Handke | 
Repetition
by Peter Handke | 
Concrete
by Thomas Bernhard | 
The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth | 
Beware of Pity
by Stefan Zweig | 
Short Letter, Long Farewell
by Peter Handke | 
Cat and Mouse
by Gunter Grass | 
The Lime Works
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth | 
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann | 
The Loser
by Thomas Bernhard | 
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
by Peter Handke | 
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil | 
Jakob von Gunten
by Robert Walser |
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig'??s final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig'??s story. This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work'??s unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.