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Beware of Pity (novel)

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daughter Edith and develops subtle affection and deep compassion for her. Edith falls in love with him. When she develops a hope for a speedy recovery, he eventually promises to marry her when she is recovered, with the hope that this will convince her to take the treatment. However, for fear of
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ridicule and contempt, he denies the engagement in public. When Edith learns of this, she takes her own life. Overwhelmed by guilt, he is deployed to the
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The young lieutenant Anton Hofmiller is invited to the castle of the wealthy Hungarian Lajos Kekesfalva. He meets Kekesfalva's
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Billington, Michael (11 February 2017). "Dazzling vision of a dying world".
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Stefan Zweig
Phyllis Blewitt
Trevor Eaton Blewitt
Anthea Bell
S. Fischer Verlag
Cassell
Viking Press
‹See Tfd›
German
Stefan Zweig
film of the same title
Maurice Elvey
paralyzed
First World War
Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Post Office Girl
Simon McBurney
Barbican Centre
London
1939 in literature
Austrian literature
Lezard, Nicholas
"Rereading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig"
The Guardian
"'I stole from Stefan Zweig': Wes Anderson on the author who inspired his latest movie"
https://biografklubdanmark.dk/saeson-2022-23/film-saeson-2022-2023/kysset/
Beware of Pity
Joan Acocella

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