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Beware of Pity
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner.
There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard.
Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-2018
Brilliant and Moving
A very powerful book - perhaps the most moving and captivating book I have ever read - Beware of Pity explores a complex moral dilemma. It simultaneously gives a glimpse into the lost world of Austria-Hungary and the torments of unrequited desire.
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- Alma Crawford
- 28-06-2017
Brilliant tangle of class, disability, and sex.
Set in an idealized Hapsburg Austria, characters lack the emotional maturitu/dexterity to manage attraction, disappointment, disparity, or constraint leading to disaster. I read it as an allegory alongside "The World of Yesterday."
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