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.
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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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. Zweig, Stefan BEWARE OF PITY London, EN: Pushkin Press 1982 AN 474pp. 16mo. Cover is clean with some wear along the edges. Text is clean as well and binding is strong. Overall book is in as new condition. Seller Inventory # 019362
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