Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig business & economics I’m at the age where

I’m at the age where that’s a surprise

At sixteen

When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money

for there is a warrior king on the throne of France whose desire for supremacy knows no bounds and who will stop at nothing to fulfil his twisted ambitions

Frances Welty

Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig business & economics I’m at the age whereIn 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro Hungarian Empire.