The Chess Machine: A Novel
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400135134 (1400135133)
Publish date: October 1st 2007
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Games,
Modern,
Steampunk,
Roman,
Chess,
German Literature,
18th Century,
Germany
Why: the translator described it this way: There's a novel by Robert Löhr called The Secrets of the Chess Machine about the famous chess-playing automaton that caused a sensation at the court of Maria Theresa. Löhr's flight of fancy is that there was a dwarf who supposedly operated the machinery. It...
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell and narrated by Stephen Hoy. I would love to see a film of this book.
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