Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig:  "I had never heard of Zweig...when    I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this    first book.  I also read    the The Post-Office Girl.  The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen    from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to    represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson,    and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law.    But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes,    is modelled significantly on Zweig as well.""Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back."--Salman  RushdieThe 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, 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.

Modern Classics Beware Of Pity

Literature & Fiction

Zweig,Stefan

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

Beware of Pity (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. Perfect moves, brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable...

Red Classics Chess

Classics

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

Mini Modern Classics Chess (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)

'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... Impatience of the Heart 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. A new translation by Jonathan Katz

Impatience of the Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Press

The royal game and other stories

Fowles, John (Intro.)

British & Irish

Harmony Books+

Beware of Pity

Beware of pity

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

Chess: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Chess (Little Clothbound Classics)

United States

Penguin Classics

Queen of Scotland and the Isles By Stefan Zweig. Originally published in 1935. The clear, the manifest, is self-explanatory but mystery is a spur to creative imagination. Always, therefore, figures and events that are shrouded in mystery demand elucidation and stimulate the ingenuity of the artistic mind Among historical problems that call unceasingly for solution, the tragedy of Mary Stuart ranks as a crucial instance. Surely of all the women who have made their mark in the world, no other has been the theme of so many dramas, novels, biographies, and discussions. Throughout four centuries she has allured poets and tor mented the fancy of men of learning. Still, today, her story has again and again to be retold. Because that which is confused craves for clarity, that which is in darkness strains towards the light. The answers to the riddle of Marys life and character are almost as contradictory as they are manifold. Some regard her as a murderess, others as a martyr some as an intriguer, others as a saint. The diver sity of opinions about this woman is due, not to a shortage of material but to the perplexing superabundance of contemporary records. In the thousands upon thousands of documents, reports, records of trials, letters, etc., relating to her, the question of her guilt or innocence Is continually being re-examined, and the re-trial has continued for three centuries. The more meticulously we scrutinize the documents, the more painfully do we become aware how dubious is the authenticity of historical evidence, and how untrustworthy therefore the con elusions of historians. For no matter how mcontestably genuine an ancient document may be, this genuineness does not provide any guarantee as to the human validity of its contents. In the of Mary Queen of Scots more plainly perhaps than in any other do we become aware how diversely two or more observers may describe an incident which they have witnessed simultaneously Every well-attested it quot Yes is countered by an equally quot f by a rebuttal Falsehood and truth, fact and arc so mingled, that every possible view as to her or this or that matter is concerned and as to her in Darnley s murder, seems equally by When, over and above this conflict of evidence, we to for the partisanship of politicians and patriots, our as tie value of the picture that emerges Is yet In any case It Is but natural for to lake acters, ideas, and outlooks are contrasted so few, i any, can avoid the temptation of one and the other wrong, one guilty and the other If, as lit the Instance, the witnesses belong to one or of the parties, religions, or philosophies, we bias to be a of course. Speaking generally, we find the blame to Mary, and CathoMc ones the to lish historians tend to describe the former as a ess, whilst Scottish authorities Incline to her and to of her as a victim of calumny The of tme the Casket Letters the thorniest problem the as the members of the other faction arc no less that these epistles must have The of extends Into the most trivial details of the life It Is perhaps easier for one who is am nor a to an unbiased judgment upon for one blood begins to course more swiftly when they tip for tion easler for him to contemplate with which Is at one and the same time and Trae it would be over-bold even for a foreigner to he was capable of learning the truth, the whole truth, and but lie truth about Mary Smart s life...

The Queen of Scots (Cassell Biographies)

Orion Publishing Co

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