Impatience of the heart
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-19422015
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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 / Stefan Zweig.
Author:
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2015.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780141196411 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.912
LC class:
PT2653.W42
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1467986
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