Beware of Pity

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It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't already know about this? * Wes Anderson * Zweig's fictional masterpiece * Guardian * It really touched me. I'm not an easy crier, not at all. But this book was one of the few moments that I found myself sobbing. It was a knife to my heart * Shira Haas, star of Netflix hit series 'Unorthodox' * The novel I'll really remember reading this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly gripping Beware of Pity, first published in 1939 ... and part of the ongoing, valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating, morally shaking read about human responsibilities and a real reminder of what fiction can do best -- Ali Smith * TLS Book of the Year 2008 * An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic -- Julie Kavanagh * Intelligent Life (The Economist) * Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel -- Antony Beevor * Sunday Telegraph * Original and powerful * The New York Times * Combines great storytelling with wonderful prose -- Jeffrey Archer * Independent * It's a masterpiece. I didn't discover it till I was 16-years-old. He was number one on the bestseller lists in the 1940s. He was a great storyteller and a great writer, amazing combination -- Jeffrey Archer * DNA India * Beware of Pity is chillingly resonant in the Trump era... [in Beware of Pity] this sense of creeping decomposition is compulsively alive. It is hypnotic -- Simon McBurney * Guardian * I was riveted by it * Colin Firth * Absolutely marvellous * Roy Hodgson * In the novel a character remarks that 'the human tendency to self-delusion likes to declare dangers null and void even when we sense in our hearts that they are real * Evening Standard (review of stage adaptation) * Beware of Pity... is a tale of the past, memory and regret set in a world about to turn * The Stage * One of the most underestimated [novels of all time]... An extraordinary book -- Stephen Fry