The Royal Game (Or Chess Story; Schachnovelle in the original German) is a novella by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1942, after the author's death by suicide. In some editions, the story titles a collection that also includes "Amok", "Burning Secret", "Fear", and "Letter from an Unknown Woman".
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