The Wizard's Gambit

✍ Tevis, Walter 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB 👁 2 views

Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquilliser twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and d

The Queen's Gambit

✍ Walter Tevis 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB 👁 2 views

Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquilliser twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and d

The Queen's Gambit

✍ Tevis, Walter 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 en-US ⚖ 169 KB 👁 2 views

**"What Walter Tevis did for pool in *The Hustler*, he does for chess in *The Queen's Gambit*" (*Playboy*).** When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from

The Queen's Gambit

✍ Walter Tevis 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Rosetta Books 🌐 English ⚖ 200 KB 👁 2 views

When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and ste

The Queen's Gambit

✍ Walter Tevis 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 English ⚖ 174 KB 👁 2 views

The Smuggler's Gambit

✍ Cassidy, D. K. 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Pluvio Press 🌐 English ⚖ 98 KB 👁 2 views