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Item Details
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BEWARE OF PITY
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| By: |
Stefan Zweig |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906548153 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906548155 |
| Publisher: |
PUSHKIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2009 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pushkin Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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