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Parade's End is Ford's major achievement as a novelist. Christopher Tietjens' life is shattered by his wife's infidelities and overturned by the mud, blood and destruction of the First World War.
"Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For …
"Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For …
"Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For …
"Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For …
A collection of short stories on the horrors and triumphs of the First World War by the ""Unofficial Bard of the Canadian Expeditionary Force"": Will R. Bird.
During the summer of 1918, as the senior class at a boy's academy in provincial Hungary prepares for graduation, they live in a ghost town from which all able-bodied men have gone as they confront the reality of war and their own forthcoming involvement in it.
Beware of pity
by Blewitt, Phyllis, Blewitt, Trevor, Zweig, Stefan
fromNew York Review Books classics
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Beware of pity
by Blewitt, Phyllis, Blewitt, Trevor, Zweig, Stefan
fromNew York Review Books classics
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Type: Book
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and?Beware of Pity 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 …
"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 Ho…
In 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 …