Beware of Pity

beware of pity

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In 1913, a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers 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 devastatingly unindulgent portrayal of the torment of the betrayal of both honor and love, realized against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy Viennese Jewish family. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig traveled widely, living in Salzburg, London and New York before settling in Brazil where he and his wife were found dead in 1942.

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Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity,Stefan Zweig,Pushkin Paper,1901285499,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,General,Historical - General,Fiction / General

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