Beware of Pity
Published on 1. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-901285-43-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 realization of the torment of the betrayal of both honor and love, realized against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 120 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-901285-43-7 (9781901285437)
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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.