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The Radetzky March
Overlook 2002; US$ 13.99The Radetzky March , Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times. more...
The Emperor's Tomb
Overlook 2002; US$ 12.99The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion... more...
Confession of a Murderer
Overlook 2002; US$ 12.99In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a vivid and compelling story of collaboration, deception, and murder. more...
The Hundred Days
Peter Owen Publishers 2011; US$ 9.99In 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 intermingled The 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...
Hotel Savoy
Overlook 2003; US$ 12.99Still bearing scars from the gulag, 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 itself in 1932, the hotel is the stage upon which characters follow fate to its tragic destination. more...
Right and Left
Overlook 2004; US$ 12.99Joseph Roth has been described as ?one of the greatest writers in German of this century? ( The Times ). With tragic foresight, Right and Left , first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political unrest, and economic tyranny of Berlin in the twenties, the same territory covered trenchantly in Roth?s reportage, recently published... more...
Flight Without End
Overlook 2002; US$ 12.99Disillusioned by the new ideologies circulating in Europe after World War I, Franz Tunda is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents of history. more...
Three Novellas
Overlook 2003; US$ 12.99The Legend of the Holy Drinker" tells the haunting story of a dissolute vagrant who is uplifted for a short time by a series of miracles. Written in the final days of Roth's life, it is a novella of sparkling lucidity and humanity. "Fallmerayer the Stationmaster" and "The Bust of the Emperor" are Roth's most acclaimed works of shorter fiction. more...
The Silent Prophet
Overlook 2003; US$ 12.99The Silent Prophet is a vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders. It focuses on the power struggle between the illegitimate and rootless Friedrich Kargan (based on Trotsky) and the coldly amoral Savelli (Stalin) to form a brilliant portrayal of revolutionary idealism-turned-cynicism. more...









