description: 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. Also available by Stefan Zweig The Invisible Collection/Buchmendel TP $14.00, 1-901285-00-6 CUSA Casanova - A Study in Self-Portraiture TP $14.00, 1-901285-18-9 CUSA
language: English
title: Beware of Pity
titlecomplete: Beware of Pity
characters: Lajos Kekesfalva, Edith von Kekesfalva, Anton Hofmiller, Doctor Condor
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Novels, Drama, German Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 14386
places: Vienna
publisher: Pushkin Press