Pushkin Press has recently issued a new translation of this author's abandoned work titled "The Post-Office Girl," as wel as his long-lost novel a "Journey Into the Past."
In one work by this author, a man known as "the Baron," befriends a boy named Edgar in order to get  closer to and seduce Edgar's mother. In another of this author's works, the title prophet urges the people of Jerusalem to make peace with the Chaldean army. In addition to The Burning Secret and the anti-war drama Jeremiah, this author wrote of Edith Kekesfalva, the paralyzed daughter of a rich Hungarian merchant who fal s in love with Anton Hofmil er, an Austrian cavalry officer, in his only ful novel, Beware of Pity. Pushkin Press has recently issued a new translation of this author's abandoned work titled "The Post-Office Girl," as wel as his long-lost novel a "Journey Into the Past." This author's most famous story, mailed to his publisher the day before his suicide in Brazil, concerns a voyage during which one of the  passengers defeats a grandmaster in the title game owing to the fact that he used to play the game  against himself when imprisoned by the Nazis. For 10 points, identify this Austrian-Jewish author of the memoir The World of Yesterday, and many novel as such as "Chess Game."
In one work by this author, a man known as "the Baron," befriends a boy named Edgar in order to get  closer to and seduce Edgar's mother.
Stefan Zweig