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Beware of pity / Stefan Zweig translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

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Record Number 716641
ISBN 9781908968371 (paperback)
1908968370 (paperback)
Author Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 author.
Title Beware of pity / Stefan Zweig translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
Edition New edition.
Publisher/Date London Pushkin Press, 2013.
Pagination etc. 460 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents note This edition originally published: 2011.
Summary Note 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.
Language note Translated from the German.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Sympathy -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Added Author Bell, Anthea translator.
Shelf Location F ZWEI
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