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The Royal Game

by Stefan Zweig · first published 1942

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".

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