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Reprinted with a new cover in B format for the fourth time due to popular demand, "Beware Of Pity" is a powerful novel which explores the complex hidden recesses of emotion. In 1913, a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers of pity and eventually flees from them into the battlefield. His involvement begins with a faux pas: he had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance. Paying her an occasional afternoon call seemed to give him a new sense of purpose and he did not notice how imperceptibly bound up with tenderness his concern might be. The girl's face brightened, her father doted, the young man's self-esteem rose. But he was gradually to learn that pity, like morphia, is only a first solace to the invalid and unless one knows the exact dosage, and when to stop, it can become a virulent poison. "Beware of Pity" is Stefan Zweig's only novel and is a devastatingly sober realisation of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, set against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Frighteningly gripping ... an intoxicating, morally shaking read about human responsibilities and a real reminder of what fiction can do best. --Ali Smith Best Books of the Year, The Guardian
Pushkin's fine list of classics continues with the only novel by Viennese master Stefan Zweig ... both a shrewd political parable and a gorgeous period-piece. --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
A most powerful novel ... What is so impressive about Beware of Pity is Zweig's ability to make us feel the violently shifting emotions of all his characters as if they were our own. Only a writer of great sensitivity could do this. --Anthony Daniels The Sunday Telegraph
Pushkin's fine list of classics continues with the only novel by Viennese master Stefan Zweig ... both a shrewd political parable and a gorgeous period-piece. --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
A most powerful novel ... What is so impressive about Beware of Pity is Zweig's ability to make us feel the violently shifting emotions of all his characters as if they were our own. Only a writer of great sensitivity could do this. --Anthony Daniels The Sunday Telegraph
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- ÉditeurPushkin Press
- Date d'édition2009
- ISBN 10 1906548153
- ISBN 13 9781906548155
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages368
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Beware of Pity
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Pushkin Press
(2009)
ISBN 10 : 1906548153
ISBN 13 : 9781906548155
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR001865132
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