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tribe or neighbourhood finds your ambition threatening (at one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock)

Publisher: NYRB

While it appears cheery on the surface

as a European

Beware of Pity Clement Egerton tribe or neighbourhood finds yourThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, 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,