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Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig


  • Pushkin (Faber)
In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig s only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

ISBN 9781908968371 | E | PB
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Publisher Pushkin (Faber)
ISBN 9781908968371
Publication date January 2013
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 200 x 131 mm
Pages 464
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig s only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.