Title: Curiosity
Description: In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
Subjects: Poverty, Chess, Apprentices, Juvenile fiction, History, Robots, Fiction, Children's fiction, Apprentices, fiction, Chess, fiction, Robots, fiction, Poverty, fiction, Philadelphia (pa.), history, fiction
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia
People: Johann Nepomuk Malzel (1772-1838), Johann Nepomuk Malzel (1772-1838)
Time periods: 19th century