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  • Audiobook

    Chess Story

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Narrated by Daniel Allen ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Stefan Zweig Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 8 min

    "Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is Stefan Zweig's compelling novella that unfolds on a passenger steamer. It narrates the psychological duel between Mirko Czentovic, a chess champion with a mysterious past, and Dr. B, a reclusive genius. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the story explores themes of isolation, obsession, and the struggle for intellectual sanity.As the chess ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of Yesterday

    A Memoir of Vienna, Exile, and Europe's Lost Golden Age

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    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 ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beware of Pity

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinders and Sparrows

    A suspenseful tale of witches, family, and magic from internationally bestselling author Stefan Bachmann. When a twelve-year-old orphan unexpectedly becomes the mistress of a seemingly abandoned castle, she is thrust into a mysterious plot involving murderous spells, false identity, and a magical battle of wills between the living and the dead. Readers of Kate Milford's Greenglass House, Victoria ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Journey Into the Past

    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    by Stefan Zweig ...
    A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Confusion

    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    by Stefan Zweig ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalStefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pluses and Minuses

    How Math Solves Our Problems

    A guide to changing how you think about numbers and mathematics, from the prodigy changing the way the world thinks about math.We all know math is important: we live in the age of big data, our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms, and we're constantly faced with a barrage of statistics about everything from politics to our health. But what might be less obvious is how math factors into ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Star Trek and the British Age of Sail

    The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films

    Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum...A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after all, also pitched as "Hornblower in space." Star Trek is modeled on the world of the "British Golden ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Beware of Pity

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Jonathan Katz ...
    'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy: a simple ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Accidental Pleasure

    14 Erotic Short Stories

    Series series Sexy Stories Collection
    Accidental Pleasure is the second short story collection from erotica author Stefan Mckinnis. Featuring ten stories, this collection offers a wide variety, including historical, BDSM, lesbian, romance, fantasy and paranormal erotica. Containing eight M/F pairings and six with multiple partners. Find the benefits of volunteer work in “The Baseball Game”; discover hidden urges in “Suddenly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motive X

    by Stefan Ahnhem ...
    Series Book 3 - A Fabian Risk Thriller
    He strikes at random. His motive unknown. No one is safe...Helsingborg police must solve the unsolveable. A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques.The body count is growing. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The World of Yesterday

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Benjamin W. Huebsch and Helmut Ripperger, introduction by Harry Zohn, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life, bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 156,000 words and 34 illustrations)This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD