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THE CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a translatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession On the deck of a transatlantic ocean liner, a crowd of passengers gathers to watch reigning chess world champion Mirko Czentovic take on a series of amateur challengers. The haughty grandmaster dispatches all of his opponents with ease, until one Dr B steps forward from the crowd - a passionate lover of the r...

Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday, (Die Welt von Gestern) is a unique love letter to the lost world of pre-war Europe The famous autobiography is published by Pushkin Press, with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the story of his life, and his relationships with ...

'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' GUARDIAN'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' ALI SMITH'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't already know about this?' WES ANDERSON_______________The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth centuryIn 1913, young second lieutenan...

"Stefan Zweig's brilliant novel, Beware of Pity, is an original and powerful work."-The New York TimesThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity.

Quo vadis, theology? This was the question addressed at an international conference on which this volume is based. Various perspectives were added to the guiding intention of thinking theology in the public sphere: the contributions range from church-historical contexts to systematic-theological horizons and practical-theological challenges. These perspectives gain an additional decisive profile through the transnational expansion of the authors. On this basis, the volume attempts to provi...

Winner of the 2024 Broken Tribe Novella AwardThis deceptively 'small volume' is a propulsive missing-persons mystery that deepens into an existential psychodrama as resonant as E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" or a season of True Detective. Like the mute ferryman it draws you toward its dread unveiling; like a siren pitched just beyond range, singing the hidden harmony behind all things.—Derek Nikitas, author of Pyres and The Long DivisionBook after ...

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper.The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing this new format, the book invites scholars to work in a publication format that integrates aesthetic perspectives and technological components in an academic work. This text builds...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Ch...

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed?Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ‘development bargain’, whereby a country’s elites shift from protecting their own position...

The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig's elegiac memoir of Europe before and between the world wars, a civilization he portrays as cultivated, cosmopolitan, and fatally vulnerable. Written in lucid, humane prose, the book blends autobiography, cultural history, and moral testimony, moving from Vienna's fin-de-siècle salons to the catastrophe of nationalism and exile. Its style is reflective rather than confessional, shaped by the literary humanism of the Central European tradition. Zweig, ...

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