The Chess Machine - Hardcover

Lohr, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201269 ISBN 13: 9781594201264

Verlag: Penguin Group USA, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

In the aftermath of the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public throughout the course of a sensational tour, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspicion.

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Robert Lšhr was born in Berlin and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 news and for the Berlin daily paper Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zeit, and Taz, and finally as a correspondent for The Washington Post. After many years writing screenplays, musicals, plays, and short stories, Lšhr decided to try his hand at a novel. The Chess Machine is his first.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Group USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1594201269
• ISBN 13: 9781594201264
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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