Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the variety 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 chess game on the ocean to a love story on the moon. These collectible books are beautifully designed and printed, bound in colorful, tactile cloth, and stamped with foil. A group of passengers on a cruise ship plans to challenge the world chess champion to a game. Initially, they fail until they receive a covert tip from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella, Chess, is a chilling, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the cost of the past.