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Beware of Pity (New York Review Books Classics)
by Stefan Zweig
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Weight: 0.85 pound
Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 7.8 x W: 4.8 inches
ISBN 10: 1590172000
ISBN 13: 9781590172001
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'Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back.' Salman Rushdie

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.

Hofmiller, an Austro Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.

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