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''The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel'' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph''I can''t take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!''Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy: a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows, ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity...Beware of Pity is Stefan Zweig''s greatest novel, fiercely capturing human emotions in all their subtleties and extremes - while Hofmiller, his unforgettable, naïve creation, misunderstands everything, resulting in his downfall.Translated by Jonathan Katz. Previously published as Impatience of the Heart.

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?No troba doncs odiós o menyspreable que una dona abandoni el seu marit i les seves dues filles per seguir un home qualsevol del qual no en sap res, ni tan sols si és digne del seu amor? Pot realment excusar una conducta tan irreflexiva i lleu en una dona que ja no és cap joveneta i que tan sols per amor a les seves filles s?hauria d?haver preocupat de la pròpia dignitat?

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De las afueras de una Viena de principios del siglo xx a las colinas de Hollywood, en Zipper y su padre (1928), novela que el autor presentó como una crónica, se dibujan las frustradas ambiciones de toda una generación que, durante una época convulsa en todos los ámbitos, no hizo más que añorar lo que hubiera podido llegar a ser. Bella descripción de una amistad de la infancia que perdura en el corazón a lo largo de los años, el lector se encontrará ante una amarga historia de ilusiones en la que dos generaciones, en apariencia alejadas, convergen en la desesperación y el fracaso tras la común experiencia de la guerra.

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It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks in a Grand Hotel in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire, where she allows herself to be utterly transformed. Then, just as abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose and she has to return to the post office, where - yes - nothing will ever be the same.

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One of the masters of the short story' Guardian I have to tell you you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have been through...'These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, a servant infatuated with her employer or a young boy witnessing illicit adult passions. Portraying innocence lost and lives crushed by history, each tale is a psychologically acute, startling human drama.Translated by Jonathan Katz

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