The Exploits and Triumphs of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Edge, Frederick Milnes

A Victorian Chronicle of the 1858-59 European Chess Tour and Sporting Celebrity

10,10 €

ISBN: 9788027386284

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 228 g

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Frederick Milnes Edge's The Exploits and Triumphs of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion is both a contemporary chronicle of Morphy's astonishing European campaign of 1858-59 and a work of sporting hagiography. Combining reportage, anecdote, match narrative, and chess-cultural commentary, it presents Morphy not merely as a brilliant player but as a figure of intellectual conquest. Its style is vivid, partisan, and Victorian in its appetite for character, rivalry, and public triumph, situating chess within the era's fascination with genius, celebrity, and international competition. Edge, an English journalist who served as Morphy's secretary and promoter during part of the American master's celebrated tour, wrote from proximity to the events he describes. His access gives the book immediacy, though also explains its admiring tone and occasional polemical edge, especially in its treatment of Howard Staunton and the contested question of a match that never occurred. Readers interested in chess history, nineteenth-century literary culture, or the making of modern sporting celebrity will find this volume indispensable. It is not a neutral biography, but precisely for that reason it remains a revealing and energetic document of Morphy's legend.

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Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Brettspiele: Schach
Verlag:	e-artnow

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