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  • The Hundred Days

    by Joseph Roth ...
    In the first English edition in 70 years of a lost classic by one of the great 20th century writers, Napoleon is seen from the point of view of a woman with whom his life is quietly intermingledThe story of Napoleon's last snatch at glory is framed both through the eyes of Bonaparte and his infatuated young laundress named Angelina—with rather more said by her about the Emperor's dirty ... Read more

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  • The Radetzky March

    Classic of German Literature

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March is an elegiac chronicle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's decline, traced through three generations of the Trotta family. From the grandfather's accidental heroism at Solferino to the grandson's moral and military drift on the empire's eastern margins, Roth transforms private fate into imperial allegory. His prose combines lucid realism, ceremonial rhythm, and ... Read more

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  • Perlefter

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observationA novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers decades after his death, this book chronicles the life and times of Alexander Perlefter, the well-to-do Austrian urbanite with whom his relative, a small-town ... Read more

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  • Confession of a Murderer

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Series series Works of Joseph Roth
    An exiled Russian spy shares his dramatic life story from a Paris restaurant in this novel by the author of The Radetzky March.In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution.Praise for Confession of a Murderer"Worthy ... Read more

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  • Flight Without End

    by Joseph Roth ...
    From the celebrated author of The Radetzky March comes the tragic story of a WWI officer caught in the tumult of a world on the verge of modernity.As an Austro-Hungarian officer on the Eastern Front of World War I, Franz Tunda was captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Dreaming of a return to his life in Vienna, he escapes from prison—only to get caught up in the Russian Revolution, fall in ... Read more

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  • The Antichrist

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Richard Panchyk ...
    Series series Peter Owen Modern Classic
    Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world**Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, this work was composed in cafés across free Europe after all his works in German went up in flames. Such events ... Read more

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  • Job

    by Joseph Roth ...
    ''Job: The Story of a Simple Man'' (1930) by Joseph Roth is a modern retelling of the biblical Book of Job, following Mendel Singer, a pious, ordinary Jewish teacher, whose life in Tsarist Russia and later New York is severely tried by immense personal losses, a sick child, and profound trials of faith. The story ends with a "miracle"—an unexpected return and success of someone dear to him, ... Read more

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  • Hotel Savoy

    by Joseph Roth ...
    A POW meets other survivors of World War I in a Polish hotel in this acclaimed classic novel by the author of The Radetzky March.Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe ... Read more

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  • Rebellion

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A novel from the author of The Radetzky March, "considered by many to be one of the most important Jewish voices in German literature written between the two wars" ( The Forward).From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one ... Read more

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  • Tarabas

    A Guest on Earth

    by Joseph Roth ...
    This modern fable of the Russian Revolution from the author of The Radetzy March follows the tragic life of a peasant who seeks meaning in violence.A Russian peasant, Nicholas Tarabas learns in his youth from a gypsy that he is destined to be both a murderer and saint. After fleeing to America under suspicion of a crime, he soon returns to fight for his homeland in World War I. Finding purpose in ... Read more

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  • Three Novellas

    by Joseph Roth ...
    This collection showcases the renowned author's "genius for metaphor, his compassionate irony, and his historical and psychological insight" ( The Wall Street Journal).Austrian author Joseph Roth was one of Europe's most powerful and perceptive literary voices during the turbulent period between WWI and WWII. This collection presents three of his most enduring works of fiction. "The Legend of the ... Read more

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  • Hiob

    An Ordinary Man: Story of Faith, Exile and Family Trials

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Hiob (Job) is Joseph Roth's austere modern parable of Mendel Singer, a poor Jewish teacher from a Galician shtetl whose faith is tested by illness, exile, family rupture, and bereavement. Written in a lucid, almost biblical prose, the novel transposes the Book of Job into the age of mass migration and modern disillusion. Roth's restrained style—at once folkloric, ironic, and deeply compassionate ... Read more

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