{"product_id":"beware-of-pity","title":"Beware of Pity","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Stefan Zweig\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Phyllis \u0026amp; Trevor Blewitt\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Joan Acocella\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, his first venture in longer fiction, is original and powerful work . . . Zweig has chronicled a hopeless and tragic relationship in a manner that so holds the reader as never to dispirit him, telling a story full of psychological pitfalls that only an experienced writer, and an experienced human being could dare to attempt . . . Zweig remains, after \u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity,\u003c\/em\u003e what he seemed to be–in his novelettes and biographies–before he wrote it: a brilliant writer.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and \u003cem\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003eNYRB Classics, 2006\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1939\u003cbr\u003e5 x 1 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781590172001\u003cbr\u003eFiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10114048261,"sku":"9781590172001","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Zweig_Beware-of_Pity.jpg?v=1634497696","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/beware-of-pity","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}