Impatience of the Heart [electronic resource]
Stefan Zweig2016
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The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful
heart, and Impatience of the Heart, 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.
Main title:
Impatience of the Heart [electronic resource] / Stefan Zweig
Author:
Stefan Zweig, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (352 pages,)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141967578
Language:
English
BRN:
436081
Electronic access:
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |