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Title:

The 64-square looking glass : the great game of chess in world literature / edited by Burt Hochberg.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Times Books,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

xiii, 352 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chess--Fiction.
Chess--Literary collections.

Other Authors:

Hochberg, Burt.

Other Titles:

Sixty-four square looking glass.

Contents:

(Cont'd) from The twelve chairs / Ilf and Petrov -- from Murphy / S. Beckett -- Pawn to king's four / S. Leacock -- The Gossage-Vardebedian papers / W. Allen -- Chess at Cracow (from Abinger harvest) / E.M. Forster -- from The tenant of Wildfell Hall / A. Brontë -- from A pair of blue eyes / T. Hardy -- from Cass Timberlane / S. Lewis -- The chess-board / E.R. Bulwer Lytton -- from Becket / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- from Beat the devil / C. Cockburn -- Chess / S. Holst -- The chess partner / T. Mathieson -- The poisoned pawn / H. Slesar -- End play / H. Kemelman -- from The tower struck by lightning / F. Arrabal -- from Money : a suicide note / M. Amis -- All the king's horses / K. Vonnegut, Jr. -- The "Victory" - a story with exaggerations / V. Aksyonov.
The romance of chess / C. Krauthammer -- from The poetry of chess, introduction / A. Waterman -- from Speak, memory / V. Nabokov -- The game of chess / E. Pound -- The sea and chess / Lord Dunsany -- from The defense / V. Nabokov -- from The royal game / S. Zweig -- from The queen's gambit / W. Tevis -- from Night moves / A. Sharp -- from The novel of Don Sandalio, chessplayer / M. de Unamuno -- from Through the looking-glass / L. Carroll -- from The white knight / A.L. Taylor -- Chess / J.L. Borges -- from From Russia, with love / I. Fleming -- The immortal game / P. Anderson -- Check! / S. Mrozek -- from Auto-da-Fe / E. Canetti -- from Hence / B. Leithauser -- The winner / R. Lowell -- Playing chess with Arthur Koestler / J. Barnes -- from The memory man / John Griffiths -- From Passover to Succos, or the chess player's story / S. Aleichem -- Chess reclaims a devotee / A. Kreymborg -- from The last gambit / D. Delman.

ISBN:

9780812919295
0812919297

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25874571

LCCN:

92053664

Locations:

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)