Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas
and essays from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy
Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island
and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with
foil. 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 Chess is a disturbing
intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of the past.
