Beware of PityStefan Zweig's most famous novel, reissued with a new jacket and title. 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller that living monument to his own courage would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery but tragedy a simple blunder at a dance from which disaster grows, ruining lives with his weak, foolish pity Beware