Beware of Pity - Softcover

Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel. --ANTHONY BEEVOR, Sunday Telegraph

The novel I'll really remember reading this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly gripping Beware of Pity, first published in 1939 (...) and part of the ongoing, valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating, morally shaking read about human responsibilities and a real reminder of what fiction can do best. --ALI SMITH, TLS Book of the Year 2008

An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic. --JULIE KAVANAGH, Intelligent Life (The Economist)

Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel. --Anthony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph

An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic. --JULIE KAVANAGH, Intelligent Life (The Economist)

Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel. --Anthony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph

An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic. --JULIE KAVANAGH, Intelligent Life (The Economist)

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.