Impatience of the Heart

Impatience of the Heart
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780141967578
ISBN-13 : 0141967579
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Book Synopsis Impatience of the Heart by : Stefan Zweig

Download or read book Impatience of the Heart written by Stefan Zweig and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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