The Chess Reader: The Royal Game in World Literature

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Contents Illustrations The Enchantement of Chess The Democratic Philosopher/The Analects Manuscript/Chess Dreams 42nd Apostolic Canon/A Persian Poem on Chess Sketch of the Game of Chess The Rubaiyat A Hebrew Poem on the Game Shah-Mat The Arabian Nights Entertainment The Heimskringla The Legend of Dilaram Roman de la Rose Huon Tells King Ivoryn of His Accomplishments The Customs of Men & The Offices of Nobles The Innocent Morality Sir Tristrem The Book of the Duchesse King Edward III Plays Chess With The Countess of Salisbury Peredur The Son of Evrawc Letters The Troy Book Caxtons Game & Play of the Chesse Memorialized Scacchia Ludus: Or The Game of Chess The Book Named The Governour/The History of the Goths, Swedes & Vandals To The Ladie That Scorned Her Lover The Book of the Courtier Gargantua & Pantagruel From Book 4 Of Democritus & Heraclitus The Chesse Play Sir Gyles Goosecap/An Address to Parliament/Works The Triall of Wits The Play of Chess A Game At Chess The Anatomy of Melancholy The Spanish Curate The Holy & Profane State Table Talk/Garden of Cyrus Destine in Pindarique Odes An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author Upon The Game of Chess The Famous Game of Chessplay Characters A Letter to Thomas Burnett/The Confessions Poems Upon Several Occasions The Philosphy of History/A Notice in the Public Advertiser A Definition in the English Dictionary The Knight in Chess/Travels in Russia Caissa A Speech to the House of Lords on American Affairs The Gentlemans Magazine The Morals of Chess The Dialogue Between Franklin & The Gout A Letter to M. Dupont De Nemours The Autobiography/Miscellaneous Observations Relating to Education Task Her Diary/ Mrs Battles Opinions on Whist On Genius & Common Sense in Table Talk Conversations With Goethe Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia & Siberian Tartary Murders in the Rue Morgue Maelzels Chess Player The Chess Monthly Chess in Hades Hades Chess Club Letters From The Underworld Daniel Deronda War & Peace Talk & Talkers/A Letter to the Daily Telegraph Lay Sermons, Addresses & Reviews The Professor at the Breakfast Table The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table/The Notebooks The Psychology of Great Calculators & Great Chessplayers Through the Looking Glass Moxons Master Concerning Chess (H.G. Wells) The Value of Science How I Learned to Play Chess (Capablanca) The Three Sailors Gambit Recollections of my Life-Cajal The Game of Life Cgess at Cracow A Game of Chess, The Wasteland/How to Watch a Chess Match How Lenin Played Chess Lenin/Life of Tolstoy The Mysterious Universe The Problem of Paul Morphy-The Psychoanalysis of Chess Finn & The Chessmen A Mathematicians Apology Pawn to Kings Four The Royal Game Cybernetics or Control & Communication in the Animal & The Machine The Royal Game