90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems . . .
As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madness . . . and tip you over?
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (Wenen 1881 – Petrópolis 1942) woonde lange tijd in Salzburg maar verhuisde in 1933, nadat de nationaalsocialisten de macht hadden overgenomen, naar Londen. In 1936 werden zijn boeken in Duitsland verboden en verbrand. Na het uitbreken van ...
