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Beware of Pity
by Stefan Zweig - £8.99 Pushkin Press (2012)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781908968371 | ISBN 10: 1908968370
Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity.
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.
(Price & availability last checked: September 2019)
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