Chess Story
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Beware of Pity
- Written by: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from...
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I couldn't stop listening!
- By Desantik on 2023-02-16
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Beware of Pity
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-20
- Language: English
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$26.27 or free with 30-day trial
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- Written by: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Story28
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of...
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Timeless
- By Denis Romanov on 2019-01-28
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-10
- Language: English
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$28.05 or free with 30-day trial
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Chess Story
- Written by: Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay (Introduction By) - introduction, Joel Rotenberg - Translator - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic...
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Chess Story
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2026-04-14
- Language: English
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$14.09 or free with 30-day trial
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Montaigne
- Eine Biografie
- Written by: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Volker Braumann
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Fragment geblieben, begibt sich Stefan Zweig in Montaigne auf die Spuren eines Geistesverwandten, der einst, in ähnlich herausfordernder Lage wie Zweig selbst, seinen eigenen stoischen Umgang fand mit all der Grausamkeit um ihn herum, die Kriege mit sich bringen.
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Montaigne
- Eine Biografie
- Narrated by: Volker Braumann
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2026-02-09
- Language: German
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$14.97 or free with 30-day trial
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Américo Vespúcio
- A história de um erro histórico
- Written by: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Camilo Schaden
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Por que a América se chama América? Por que homenagear Américo Vespúcio se não foi ele o primeiro a pisar em solo do Novo Mundo e se tampouco era considerado o grande navegador da ….
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Américo Vespúcio
- A história de um erro histórico
- Narrated by: Camilo Schaden
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2026-04-14
- Language: Portuguese
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$18.19 or free with 30-day trial
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