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Two of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together here in one volume, as heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman captures the passion and despair that results from a fateful encounter between an English widow and a Polish aristocrat. In The Royal Game, the reigning chess champion is challenged by an unknown; as the game unfolds the horror of the stranger's damaged past emerges. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There were a couple of things that grabbed me about this story. I liked the idea of someone trying to amuse themselves when they were bored witless by changing the way they viewed the world i.e. by looking at the gambler's hands rather than their faces. I will never forget that and may now employ the technique in other fields! Secondly, I liked the account of how a person changes in the grip of an addiction. Zweig impressively managed to capture the hurt/insult that our heroine suffered at the hands of the man she tried to save from ruin. I have only been to a casino once with my husband - never again !!! It was truly appalling witnessing a very smart man thinking he could possibly beat the system. There was no reasoning with him - well in hindsight there must have been because we did emerge from that truly tacky establishment eventually - but it was one of the loneliest and scariest experiences I have ever had the misfortune to experience. Zweig captures it beautifully. ( )