Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel. --ANTHONY BEEVOR, Sunday Telegraph 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)
