Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle Neu editiert, in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung und mit Kurzbiographie des Autors im Anhang. Vollständig verlinkt und mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Auf einem Passagierdampfer, auf der Passage von New York nach Buenos Aires, kommt es zu einer außergewöhnlichen Konfrontation: Der amtierende Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic, ein derber, unsensibler Mensch, dessen Inselbegabung für Schach alleine und verloren in charakterlicher...

A collection of seven short stories that examine the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives.

Ten tales of fantasy and the supernatural by the German writer are presented together with biographical and explanatory notes.

This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann's early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a character's carefully structured...

These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself". Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella to the irony of "Felix Krull" the early story on which he later based his comic novel "The confessions of Felix Krull", they are stunning testimony to the...