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Impatience of the Heart (Penguin Modern Classics) UK ed. Edition, Kindle Edition
by Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Impatience of the Heart, 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.
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His stories are full of characters poisoned by things left unsaid, or situations misread... an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery... a ring of interior psychological veracity -- Nick Lezard ― Guardian
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Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian writer who, at the height of his fame in the 1920s and 30s, was one of the most famous authors in the world. After taking a pacifist stance during the First World War he travelled widely and became an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.
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Publisher : Penguin
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Publication date : 7 January 2016
Print length : 384 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0141967578
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Stefan Zweig (/zwaɪɡ, swaɪɡ/; German: [tsvaɪk]; November 28, 1881 in Vienna – February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly and remarkably touchingReviewed in Brazil on 27 May 2017
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What a book! What feelings it evokes! I have read it nonstop, bearing the guilt as if I were in Anton's skin.
How elegantly written! By the gods of poetry, this is a 5 star!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2016
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Beautiful Novel Be Careful what you Say and Do on Love xx
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maur s.
1.0 out of 5 stars This is a not a new novel, merely a new translation of Beware of PityReviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2020
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It was not made clear that this is simply a newer translation of Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity and not another novel. I wouldn’t have ordered it if I had known. It states on the back cover that it is a new translation but that is not visible until you buy it.
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Lieutenant Anton Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed far from home, is invited to a lavish party at the mansion of a rich Hungarian landowner, Lajos. In a world of luxurious living far removed from the bare life at the barracks, Anton meets Edith, the daughter of the host, and spontaneously asks her for a dance. When he realizes a sickness has left her crippled for life, deep compassion for her overtakes him, leading Edith to fall in love with him. Soon Anton is drawn into a vortex of events and emotions quite unforeseen, as pity and guilt inexorably implicate him in a well-meaning intention that tragically goes wrong.
