Roth Joseph
Roth Joseph - Weights And Measures - Paperback
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Description: A masterly performance Evening Standard Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands In the twilight of the Austro - Hungarian Empire Anselm Eibensch tz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers - and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge as Eibensch tz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own. In this late masterpiece Joseph Roth depicts the slow corruption of a decent man at the lawless edge of a crumbling world. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand - picked from around the globe. Translated by David Le Vay. Joseph ROTH (1894 - 1939) was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro - Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He later worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin travelling widely staying in hotels and living out of suitcases while also becoming a prolific writer of fiction. Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris where he died just before the outbreak of World War II. As well as his masterpiece The Radetzky March he was the author of over two dozen works of fiction and non - fiction including On the End of the World The Coral Merchant and Flight Without End all published by or forthcoming from Pushkin Press. David LE VAY (1915 - 2001) was a consultant surgeon in the NHS for over thirty years. Combining his medical work with a literary career he authored medical textbooks and biographies of prominent historical surgeons as well as translating works from French German Spanish and Latin.
Title: Weights And Measures
Author(s): Roth Joseph
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781805330653
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/29/2024
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: A masterly performance Evening Standard Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands In the twilight of the Austro - Hungarian Empire Anselm Eibensch tz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers - and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge as Eibensch tz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own. In this late masterpiece Joseph Roth depicts the slow corruption of a decent man at the lawless edge of a crumbling world. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand - picked from around the globe. Translated by David Le Vay. Joseph ROTH (1894 - 1939) was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro - Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He later worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin travelling widely staying in hotels and living out of suitcases while also becoming a prolific writer of fiction. Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris where he died just before the outbreak of World War II. As well as his masterpiece The Radetzky March he was the author of over two dozen works of fiction and non - fiction including On the End of the World The Coral Merchant and Flight Without End all published by or forthcoming from Pushkin Press. David LE VAY (1915 - 2001) was a consultant surgeon in the NHS for over thirty years. Combining his medical work with a literary career he authored medical textbooks and biographies of prominent historical surgeons as well as translating works from French German Spanish and Latin.
Title: Weights And Measures
Author(s): Roth Joseph
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781805330653
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/29/2024
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
