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A classic of reportage: Roth's compassionate, incisive account of Berlin in the 1920s, chronicling the moral bankruptcy of the Jazz Age and the rising threat of fascism.

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The latest instalment in Hesperus' On series is moving collection of journalism from Joseph Roth exploring the horrors of the Nazi regime, the onset of the Second World War and the fear that it would herald the end to the free world.

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A companion piece to Roth's masterpiece, The Radetzky March: an aching novel reckoning with the legacy of war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the rise of the Nazi party.

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A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.

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A witty novel of 'sublime simplicity' about an alcoholic vagrant who has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence.

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Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.

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A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York.

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An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters -selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann -is classic European literature at its finest.

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Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, "Tarabas" tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominiously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.

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New translations of the greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition.

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Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the same time the detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty.

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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 unable to rebel.

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In "The Spider's Web", his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

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The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage. 'What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd. A journalism which is equal parts Baudelaire, Dickens and Kafka' Scotland on Sunday

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Gabriel Dan is a former soldier in the Austrian army who returns from a Siberian prison camp, some time after World War I. He arrives in an unnamed town that might be in Poland, and lodges at the Hotel Savoy. The owner is absent, the guests are deranged, and murder and chaos ensue.

Set in the 1920s, this novel charts the rivalry of the two sons of a wealthy banker, one of them a Nazi. It evokes the atmosphere of Berlin in the years before the rise of Nazism, when its society was on the brink of disintegration.

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Roth's novellas and short stories are considered by some to rank with Chekhov's and Kafka's as among the greatest of the twentieth century. Each of these short works conjures characters and an entire world with breathtaking concision.

While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the "countess", but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.