NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.

Modern Classics Radetzky March

Literature & Fiction

Roth, Joseph

Literary

Penguin Classic

Told through the lives of the Von Trotta family, this book shows the deterioration of a society and an empire. Disparate nationalities have been forced into political unity by an overriding authority and its symbol: the Austro-Hungarian empire and the personality of Emperor Franz Joseph.

20th Century Radetzky March

Contemporary

Radetzky March

Penguin Classics

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'\nAt his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.\nTranslated by David Le Vay

Weights & Measures (Penguin Modern Classics)

Kapuzinergruft

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd

In the first English version of Roth's final novel, a young woman, abandoned by her lover in late nineteenth-century Vienna, is forced into a bordello, where she catches the eye of a Persian shah whose gift, a magnificent string of pearls, has an unexpected impact on her life. 10,000 first printing.

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

Hofmann, Michael

St Martins Pr

Rebellion: A Novel

St.Martin's Press

Vienna of the late nineteenth century, with its contrasting images of pomp and profound melancholy, provides the backdrop for Joseph Roth's final novel, which he completed in exile, a few years before his tragic death in 1939. This brilliant, allegorical tale of seduction and personal and societal ruin, set amidst exquisite, wistful descriptions of a waning aristocratic age, provides an essential link to our understanding of Roth's extraordinary fictive powers.

The Tale of the 1002nd Night: A Novel

Picador

Joseph Roth, one of the great novelists of the century, weaves a short, fast-paced tale of an average man's struggle against injustice. Rebellion is the last of his novels to be translated into English.

The Hotel Savoy (Picador Classics)

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