Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell torrent

Category: Classic, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century Austrian German

Written by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell
Read by Nicholas Boulton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Duration: 14 hrs and 43 mins

[Translated by Anthea Bell]

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, yet one that will go on to 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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