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

Six Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Genre Fiction

Penguin 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 (Penguin Modern Classics)

Chess (Little Clothbound Classics)

United States

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