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STEFAN ZWEIG (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel, Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. After a short period in New York, Zweig settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't already know about this?
Wes Anderson
Zweig's fictional masterpiece
Guardian
It really touched me. I'm not an easy crier, not at all. But this book was one of the few moments that I found myself sobbing. It was a knife to my heart
Shira Haas, star of Netflix hit series 'Unorthodox'
The novel I'll really remember reading this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly gripping Beware of Pity, first published in 1939 ... and part of the ongoing, valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating, morally shaking read about human responsibilities and a real reminder of what fiction can do best
- Ali Smith, TLS Book of the Year 2008
An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic
- Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life (The Economist)
Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel
- Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph
Original and powerful
The New York Times
Combines great storytelling with wonderful prose
- Jeffrey Archer, Independent
It's a masterpiece. I didn't discover it till I was 16-years-old. He was number one on the bestseller lists in the 1940s. He was a great storyteller and a great writer, amazing combination
- Jeffrey Archer, DNA India
Beware of Pity is chillingly resonant in the Trump era... [in Beware of Pity] this sense of creeping decomposition is compulsively alive. It is hypnotic
- Simon McBurney, Guardian
I was riveted by it
Colin Firth
Absolutely marvellous
Roy Hodgson
In the novel a character remarks that 'the human tendency to self-delusion likes to declare dangers null and void even when we sense in our hearts that they are real
Evening Standard (review of stage adaptation)
Beware of Pity... is a tale of the past, memory and regret set in a world about to turn
The Stage
One of the most underestimated [novels of all time]... An extraordinary book
- Stephen Fry,