| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Form |
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
| Summary |
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Hofmiller, 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. |
| Note |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 23, 2014). |
| Subject |
FICTION / Psychological.
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| Added Author |
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.
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Recorded Books, LLC.
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| ISBN |
9781590176047 (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
EB00175003 Recorded Books |
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