2001: A Space Odyssey confirmed Arthur C. Clarke's reputation as one of the best-known and most influential science fiction writers ever. The book and the 1968 movie are icons of the modern age. Now comes a special trade paperback edition, with a new introduction by the author which sheds light on the powerful synergy between the book and the movie.
The perfect gift for the Shakespeare fan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is an elegant edition boasting the entire credited catalog of William Shakespeare including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12 tragedies as well as all of his poems and sonnets.
In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and genteel dinner parties at a stately manor draw two pretty sisters into the schemes and manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry wisely and well.Neither sense nor sensibility can guarantee happiness for either—as romantic Marianne falls prey to a dangerous rascal, and reasonable Elinor loses her heart to a gentleman already engaged.Wonderfully entertaining yet subtle and probing in its characterizations, Sense and Sensibility richly displays the supreme artistry of a great English novelist.
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations. Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.
Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
Shirley z titulu je žena nezávislých poměrů; její kamarádka Caroline není. Oba bojují s tím, jaká je a může být ženská role. Jejich mužské protějšky - Louis, bezmocný učitel, a Robert, jeho bratr vyrábějící látky - jsou také v rozporu s očekáváním společnosti. Román se odehrává v období sociálního a politického kvasu, představuje třídní zbavení volebního práva, drama rozbití luddských strojů a rozdělující účinky napoleonských válek. Ale zvláštní síla Charlotte Brontové spočívá v prozkoumávání skrytého psychologického dramatu lásky, ztráty a hledání identity. Osobní a veřejná agitace se snoubí na dramatickém pozadí jejího rodného Yorkshiru. Jako vždy, Bronte? zpochybňuje konvence, zkoumá omezení sociální spravedlnosti a zároveň nevypráví jeden, ale dva milostné příběhy.
Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the new World. Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.
A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England.
J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Numenoreans' power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form. Now, adhering to the timeline of 'The Tale of Years' in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien from the various published texts, with new pencil illustrations by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.
Cult director Rudi Dolezal, awarded at the Grammys for his film "Freddie Mercury - The Untold Story", has won numerous international film, music and TV awards and has filmed stars from all over the world: The Rolling Stones, Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Falco, and many more. From the very beginning, Dolezal had a very special relationship with Freddie Mercury and Queen, for whom he directed a total of 32 music videos.In his book "My Friend Freddie" Rudi Dolezal tells stories he has never told before. He guides the reader from beginning to end, starting with the unusual start of a friendship that was to last a lifetime. He talks about many private moments, including the last time Freddie stood in front of a camera. In front of his camera.
Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the overpowering cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu' . This is the first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts of these classics of American fantasy fiction.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 928, Publishers: Vintage Publishing, Author: George Eliot, ISBN-13: 9781784877569, Date of issue: 2021
Élisabeth Bennet a quatre soeurs et une mère qui ne songe qu’à les marier. Quand parvient la nouvelle de l’installation à Netherfield, le domaine voisin, de Mr Bingley, célibataire et beau parti, toutes les dames des alentours sont en émoi, d’autant plus qu’il est accompagné de son ami Mr Darcy, un jeune et riche aristocrate. Les préparatifs du prochain bal occupent tous les esprits… Jane Austen peint avec ce qu’il faut d’ironie les turbulences du coeur des jeunes filles et, aujourd’hui comme hier, on s’indigne avec l’orgueilleuse Élisabeth, puis on ouvre les yeux sur les voies détournées qu’emprunte l’amour…Collection Classiques dirigée par Michel Zink et Michel Jarrety.Traduction, introduction, notes et dossier de Sophie Chiari.
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank - Wissenschaftlich fundierte Neuausgabe (2022) mit Anmerkungen und Fußnoten | Hätte Anne Frank die Nazizeit überlebt, wäre wahrscheinlich eine große Schriftstellerin aus ihr geworden. Ihrem Tagebuch vertraute sie diesen Lebenstraum an: »Du weißt ja schon lange, dass es mein größtes Ziel ist, einmal Journalistin und später eine berühmte Schriftstellerin zu werden [...] Nach dem Krieg will ich auf jeden Fall ein Buch mit dem Titel 'Das Hinterhaus' herausbringen [...], mein Tagebuch kann mir als Grundstein dafür dienen.« | Den ersten Tagebucheintrag schrieb Anne am 12.Juni 1942, den letzten am 1.August 1944, vier Tage vor der Verhaftung. Alle Bewohner des Verstecks im 'Hinterhaus' wurden von den Nazis nach Auschwitz und in andere Lager verschleppt. Im März 1945 starb Anne, ebenso wie ihre Schwester Margot, an Entkräftung und Typhus im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen. Der genaue Todestag ist nicht bekannt. | Anne Franks Tagebuch gilt heute als bedeutendstes schriftliches Zeugnis aus Zeit der Nazi-Diktatur. | Eine ausführliche Darstellung zur Urheberrechtsfrage findet sich im Vorwort dieses Buchs.
White NightsAnd Other StoriesThe Novels of Fyodor DostoevskyFrom The Russian by Constance Garnett CONTENTSWhite NightsNotes from Underground-- Part 1. underground Part 2
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 134, Publishers: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, Author: Marie Corelli, ISBN-13: 9781548920777, Date of issue: 2017
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.
Los mejores libros jamás escritosFiódor Pávlovich Karamázov, unterrateniente borracho, arbitrario y corrompido, tiene cuatro hijos:Dmitri, de carácter violento, Iván, un intelectual frío ymaterialista, Aliosha, el hijo peque?o, pasivo y religioso, ySmerdiakov, el hijo bastardo y resentido. La novela gira en torno alas relaciones perversas que se establecen entre el padre y los hijoshasta que éste es asesinado y su presunto asesino, Dmitri, juzgado ycondenado. Odio, amor, crueldad, compasión, sentimientos radicalmentecontrarios y enfrentados...La presente edición de una de las obras más importantes de la literatura universal cuenta con la célebretraducción de José Laín Entralgo. Asimismo, viene acompa?ada de unaintroducción de David McDuff, traductor y crítico literarioespecialista en la obra del autor.«Siempre me parece que cuando entroen algún sitio soy el más miserable de todos y que todos me toman porun bufón: haré, pues, el bufón, porque todos vosotros, hasta elúltimo, sois más estúpidos y miserables que yo.»
Avec Les Fleurs du Mal commence la poésie moderne : le lyrisme subjectif s'efface devant cette " impersonnalité volontaire " que Baudelaire a lui-męme postulée ; la nature et ses retours cycliques cčdent la place au décor urbain et ŕ ses changements marqués par l'Histoire, et il arrive que le počte accčde au beau par l'expérience de la laideur. Quant au mal affiché dčs le titre du recueil, s'il nous apporte la preuve que l'art ici se dénoue de la morale, il n'en préserve pas moins la profonde spiritualité des počmes.D'oů la stupeur que Baudelaire put ressentir quand le Tribunal de la Seine condamna la premičre édition de 1857 pour " outrage ŕ la morale publique et aux bonnes moeurs " et l'obligea ŕ retrancher six pičces du volume - donc ŕ remettre en cause la structure du recueil qu'il avait si précisément concertée. En 1861, la seconde édition fut augmentée de trente-cinq pičces, puis Baudelaire continua d'écrire pour son livre d'autres počmes encore. Mais aprčs la censure, c'est la mort qui vint l'empęcher de donner aux Fleurs du Mal la forme définitive qu'il souhaitait - et que nous ne connaîtrons jamais.Préface d'Yves Bonnefoy.Edition de John E. Jackson.
This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.
With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews ove
A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand's centennial. When it was first published in 1943, "The Fountainhead"--containing Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism?won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand's personal notes on the development of her masterwork. ?A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.?--"The New York Times"
VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visits the shepherd again and sees the young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elzeard's solitary, silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct. VINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our ever-changing relationship with the environment.These are stories old and young, set in worlds real or imagined, that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. Transformative, wild, surprising and essential, these novels take on the most urgent story of our times.
Als der Berufspilot und Schriftsteller Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 den 'Kleinen Prinzen' erfand, konnte er nicht ahnen, welch gewaltiger Erfolg sein Büchlein werden sollte.Die philosophisch-poetische Geschichte vom kleinen Prinzen, der auf der Suche nach Freunden allerlei seltsame Planeten bereist, übt ungebrochene Faszination aus. Sie ist ein Plädoyer für Menschlichkeit, das in über 240 Sprachen und Dialekte übersetzt worden ist. Zwei davon sind hier enthalten, Deutsch und Englisch. Ihr Zusammenspiel ermöglicht einen spannenden Blick auf einen bekannten Text, der so abermals und wieder neu zum Staunen bringt.
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two volumes, this new Bantam edition presents all 56 short stories and 4 novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero -- a truly complete collection now available in paperback! Volume I includes the early novel, A Study in Scarlet, that introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Marry Mortson in the quintessential locked room mystery. Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases such as the chilling Adventure of the Specked Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
The fantasy classic, now in beautiful new deluxe trade paperback edition. From The Last Unicorn : "The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea..."
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.
A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf's most ambitious novel. This new edition includes pictures and a section on Virginia Woolf's life and works.
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. Volume 2 of 2
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
This collection contains seven of the most famous military texts of ancient China: The Art of War, Wuzi, Wei Liaozi, Taigong's Six Secret Teachings, The Methods of the Sima, Three Strategies of Huang Shigong, an
This edition contains the original and unabridged text of this Jane Austen classic. Ideal for students, Janeites and new readers alike.Pride and Prejudice follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manne
"He intentado, no s con qu fortuna, la redacci n de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra una sola p gina, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo m s notorio atributo es la compl
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Chekhov's works available in Penguin Classics are The Steppe and Other Stories, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Plays and A Life in Letters.
With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843.
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O'Brien.
»Selbst dort, wo er zurückblickt, ist es die Gegenwart, die er anspricht.« Wilhelm von Sternburg über Erich Maria Remarque.»Die Nacht von Lissabon« ist Remarques ergreifendster Roman. Es ist die Geschichte vom Elend und von der Größe des Menschen im Krieg, eine Geschichte, die zeigt, dass es weder einen Preis für Menschlichkeit gibt noch einen Preis für Unmenschlichkeit. Es gibt nur Geschichten von Jammer und Elend, von Größe, Liebe und Leidenschaft. Der Roman ist ein Gleichnis der absurden menschlichen Situation im Machtbereich der Diktatur.
In Jane Austen's first published novel, her portrait of two heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic society they had to survive. This new edition includes a new introduction, and revised notes and bibliography.
In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and "masterful account of the growth of the human
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - soon to be a major motion picture.A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...
Mir schiene für sehr viele schwer seelenkranke Menschen der rasche Verlust ihres Vermögens und die Erschütterung ihres Glaubens an die Heiligkeit des Geldes durchaus kein Unglück, sondern die sicherste, ja einzig mögliche Rettung zu bedeuten, und ebenso erscheint mir inmitten unseres heutigen Lebens, im Gegensatz zum alleinigen Kultus der Arbeit und des Geldes der Sinn für das Spiel des Augenblicks, das Offenstehen für den Zufall etwas durchaus Wünschenswertes, woran wir alle sehr Mangel leiden.§Wir sollen nicht aus der Vita activa in die Vita contemplativa fliehen, noch umgekehrt, sondern zwischen beiden wechselnd unterwegs sein, in beiden zuhause sein, an beiden teilhaben.
Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face ŕ un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilŕ plus qu'étonné ! Ŕ partir de lŕ, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'oů vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire. S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit ŕ travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde ŕ nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naďveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Trčs vite, vous découvrez d'étranges plančtes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbčres. Cette évocation onirique, ŕ laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, oů l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura ŕ coeur de raconter ŕ son enfant, page aprčs page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne !
Als der junge Leutnant Anton Hofmiller die 17-jährige Edith, die Tochter eines Großindustriellen, zum Tanz auffordert, weiß er noch nicht um seinen Fehler: Sie ist gelähmt und sitzt im Rollstuhl. Aus Anteilnahme baut er eine Freundschaft zu ihr auf, aber Edith missversteht diese Treffen und verliebt sich in ihn. Selbst in eine Verlobung willigt Hofmiller ein, verleugnet sie aus Scham jedoch vor seinen Kameraden - mit ungeahnten Folgen ... Stefan Zweig entspinnt einen beeindruckenden Roman um Schuld und zweierlei Formen von Mitleid: das schwachmütige und sentimentale gegenüber dem unsentimentalen und schöpferischen Mitleid.
