Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman

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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.