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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hans Castorp is twenty-three years old, a well-bred engineer from Hamburg, when he travels to the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin at the Berghof sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks. He stays for seven years.The sanatorium is high above the world of ordinary time, work, and consequenc…e. Its patients - drawn from across Europe, representing every tradition and intellectual persuasion - live in the peculiar suspended present of the chronically ill, where days blur into weeks and years pass without the usual markers of progress or purpose. Into this world Hans Castorp stumbles, receptive and passive and constitutionally unsuited for what is about to happen to his mind.What happens is a full education in the contradictions of modern European civilization, conducted through the endless, brilliant, unresolvable arguments of two great antagonists: Settembrini, the Italian humanist who believes in reason, progress, and the democratic future; and Naphta, the Jesuit authoritarian who believes in hierarchy, death, and the necessity of violence. Between them, Castorp listens. So does the reader.First published in November 1924, The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterpiece and one of the essential novels of the twentieth century - a book about illness and time, about the state of European civilization on the eve of a catastrophe that has already happened by the time it is written, and about what it means to descend, finally, from a mountain and re-enter a world that has been waiting, all this time, to destroy itself.By Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hans Castorp is twenty-three years old, a well-bred engineer from Hamburg, when he travels to the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin at the Berghof sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks. He stays for seven years.The sanatorium is high above the world of ordinary time, work, and consequenc…e. Its patients - drawn from across Europe, representing every tradition and intellectual persuasion - live in the peculiar suspended present of the chronically ill, where days blur into weeks and years pass without the usual markers of progress or purpose. Into this world Hans Castorp stumbles, receptive and passive and constitutionally unsuited for what is about to happen to his mind.What happens is a full education in the contradictions of modern European civilization, conducted through the endless, brilliant, unresolvable arguments of two great antagonists: Settembrini, the Italian humanist who believes in reason, progress, and the democratic future; and Naphta, the Jesuit authoritarian who believes in hierarchy, death, and the necessity of violence. Between them, Castorp listens. So does the reader.First published in November 1924, The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterpiece and one of the essential novels of the twentieth century - a book about illness and time, about the state of European civilization on the eve of a catastrophe that has already happened by the time it is written, and about what it means to descend, finally, from a mountain and re-enter a world that has been waiting, all this time, to destroy itself.By Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A gypsy woman tells the young Nicholas Tarabas his fate: he will be both a murderer and a saint. It is not the kind of prophecy a young man knows what to do with. He will spend his entire life finding out.From provincial Russia to New York, from the trenches of the First World War to the com…mand of a Galician garrison town, Tarabas moves through the upheavals of the early twentieth century with the terrifying force of a man who has never found a place he belongs. He is brave beyond reason, brutal beyond necessity, and possessed of a certainty that ordinary men find either magnetic or unbearable. Then, in a small town called Koryla, he commits an act of cruelty he cannot walk away from - and the second half of the prophecy begins.First published in 1934, the first novel Roth completed in exile after fleeing Hitler's Germany, Tarabas is one of his most elemental and most haunting works - a novel written in the register of folk tale and fable, following a single extraordinary soul from violence to repentance across a landscape of war, revolution, and destruction. Hermann Hesse called it one of Roth's most beautiful books.A novel about fate, guilt, and the extraordinary cost of becoming what you were always meant to be.By Joseph Roth. Author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Berlin, the late 1920s. The inflation has eaten the Bernheim fortune. The nightclubs are full. The Republic is holding, more or less. And on the streets, the paramilitary organizations are growing.Paul Bernheim has returned from the war to find himself heir to a bank he doesn't understand, i…n a world he can't quite navigate. He is charming, educated, and entirely without direction - a man of the middle in every sense, caught between his German father's world and his Jewish mother's, between ambition and inertia, between a social order that is dissolving and whatever is coming to replace it.His younger brother Theodor has found an answer. It is not a good one.Into Paul's life comes Nikolai Brandeis - a Russian emigre of mysterious origins who has built a commercial empire in Weimar Berlin through methods nobody examines too carefully. He offers Paul an arrangement. The arrangement will prove, in ways Paul does not anticipate, to be a mirror of everything wrong with the world he lives in.Published in 1929 - the year of the Wall Street Crash, four years before Hitler's rise to power - Right and Left is Joseph Roth's most politically acute novel, a portrait of Weimar Germany so precisely observed that it reads now as an act of prophecy. By the author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Friedrich Kargan has no country, no father, and no name that the world will recognize. Born illegitimate on the eastern margins of the old Russian empire, he finds in the revolutionary movement what his personal history has denied him: a purpose, a community, a reason to exist.He will give e…verything to the cause - his youth, his freedom, years of Siberian exile, the one love of his life. And when the revolution finally succeeds, he will return to Russia to see what has been built in the name of everything he believed in.What he finds will cost him the rest.The Silent Prophet is Joseph Roth's own Trotsky novel - written in the late 1920s at the height of speculation about the fate of the exiled revolutionary, based on Roth's firsthand observations in Moscow in 1926, and never published during his lifetime. Set against the collapse of the old European order and the betrayal of the revolution by its own victors, it is a portrait of a man who gave himself entirely to history and was discarded by it - told with the precision, the melancholy, and the political intelligence that made Roth one of the essential writers of the twentieth century.Three manuscripts survived his death in Paris in 1939. The novel was reconstructed and published in German in 1966, and in English in 1979. By the author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Paris, March 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte has returned from exile on Elba, and the city receives him with the roar of crowds and the flight of the king he has displaced. For a hundred days, he will rule again - alone in the Tuileries, surrounded by advisors he cannot trust, preparing for the bat…tle that will end everything.In the corridors of his palace, a Corsican laundress named Angelina goes about her work. She has refused two proposals of marriage. She has a child she raises alone. She loves only one man in the world, and he does not know her name.The Hundred Days tells the story of Napoleon's last return through two perspectives - the Emperor's and the laundress's - held apart by an unbridgeable distance of rank and drawn together by the same condition: a devotion so complete it asks nothing in return and receives nothing back.Published in 1935 while Roth himself was in exile in Paris, watching Europe prepare to destroy itself again, The Hundred Days is one of his most intimate and most beautiful novels - a meditation on greatness and loneliness, on the loyalty that ordinary people give to extraordinary things, and on what remains when the thing you have devoted yourself to is finally, irrevocably gone.By Joseph Roth. Author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Vienna, 1870s. The world, as Roth tells us, is deeply and frivolously at peace. The Shah of Persia has come to visit, on the advice of his philosophical Chief Eunuch, who recommends travel as the best cure for the conviction that variety might exist. Vienna receives him with the magnificent…self-assurance of a civilization that does not yet know it is running out of time.Baron Taittinger - cavalry officer, minor nobleman, chronically short of money, constitutionally incapable of foresight - is assigned to manage the Shah's entertainment. He does so with the casual irresponsibility of a man who has never once been required to consider consequences. The consequences, in this case, will be considerable. A string of pearls will change hands. A woman's life will be upended. And the social machinery of Habsburg Vienna will grind on, as elegant and as indifferent as ever.The Tale of the 1002nd Night was the last novel Joseph Roth completed, written in exile in Paris as the world he loved was being destroyed, published in 1939 - the year of his death - and suppressed by the Nazis when they invaded the Netherlands the following year. It is his most formally playful work and one of his most moving: a comedy of manners that opens like a fairy tale and darkens, gradually and with great precision, into something far more searching.By the author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Christine Hoflehner is twenty-eight years old, works behind the counter of a provincial Austrian post office, and cares for her invalid mother on wages that barely cover the rent. It is 1926. The war ended eight years ago, but for Christine - and for most of Austria - the ending changed very… little. She has no expectations. She endures.Then a telegram arrives from a wealthy American aunt she has never met, inviting her to a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. For a few extraordinary weeks, Christine lives in a world she did not know existed - fine clothes, beautiful rooms, people who have never once worried about money - and discovers, to her amazement, that she belongs there. That she is, in the right clothes and the right setting, indistinguishable from the people she has always served.And then the invitation ends. She goes home. And the woman who comes back is not the same woman who left.The Post-Office Girl is Stefan Zweig's most powerful and most unexpected novel - a ferocious indictment of class inequality, a precise account of what poverty actually costs, and a dark, propulsive story of two damaged people who have run out of reasons to be careful. Written in the 1930s during Zweig's exile from Nazi-occupied Austria, left unfinished at his death in 1942, and discovered among his papers forty years later, it is the book that revealed an entirely unsuspected dimension of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.By Stefan Zweig. Author of Chess Story, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Beware of Pity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three works from the exile years of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - each different in form, all unmistakably Roth.In The Bust of Emperor Franz Joseph, a Polish count of the old Habsburg world finds himself stranded in a new nation-state that has no language for the kind of…belonging he has always taken for granted. His devotion to a vanished empire is treated as an eccentricity. It is, in fact, a form of faith.In Confession of a Murderer, a Russian exile in a Paris restaurant tells the story of his life to a group of silent listeners - a tale that moves from Odessa to St. Petersburg to revolutionary chaos and into the wreckage of exile, circling always around the question of what a man becomes when the world gives him every reason to be worse than he intended.In The False Weight, an incorruptible former soldier becomes the inspector of weights and measures in a remote Galician border town where every merchant cheats, every official takes bribes, and honesty is the only thing nobody has any use for. Then he meets a gypsy woman, and his integrity - the one thing he had left - begins to give way.Published between 1934 and 1937, during the years of Roth's Paris exile, these three works show the full range of a writer who could move between elegy, atmospheric noir, and moral fable without losing, in any register, his precise and devastating intelligence.By Joseph Roth. Author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Five works across fifteen years. One vision, unwavering.In Hotel Savoy, Gabriel Dan - a returning prisoner of war - checks into a vast, crumbling hotel in post-war Lodz where the displaced and the dispossessed wait, floor by floor, for a rich man's return from America to change everything. A… world in miniature. A world in ruins.In Rebellion, Andreas Pum has lost a leg in the war and received a medal and a barrel-organ permit in exchange. He is grateful, faithful, and entirely trusting in the state that broke him - until a single altercation on a tram sets in motion a catastrophe his innocence cannot prevent.In A Chapter of Revolution, a winter train crawls through a frozen Russian landscape between Kursk and Voronezh. The men aboard have made a revolution. The revolution is already becoming something else.In The Silent Prophet - written in the late 1920s, rejected by his publisher, found in three fragmentary manuscripts after his death - Friedrich Kargan gives everything to the revolutionary cause and returns to find that the cause has been replaced by its opposite, and that no one knows what to do with the men who actually believed.In The Legend of the Holy Drinker - the last work Roth completed, written in Paris in the final months of his life - a homeless man living under the bridges of the Seine is given two hundred francs and asked to repay the debt to the Little St. Therese. He intends to. He always intends to. The result is one of the most mysterious and most beautiful novellas of the twentieth century.By Joseph Roth. Author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Four works. One career. The full range of Joseph Roth.In The Spider's Web - his first novel, serialized in 1923 - a mediocre, resentful veteran of the First World War discovers that in Weimar Berlin, ambition without conscience is the most reliable path to power. Written in cold, furious pro…se utterly unlike anything else Roth produced, it is the most prescient novel about the rise of fascism ever written - and it appeared two days before Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.In April: The Story of a Love Affair - brief, luminous, quietly devastating - a young man moves carelessly through a summer encounter that means everything to the woman and nothing to him. A story about the asymmetry of feeling, told with the restraint of a writer who trusts his reader entirely.In Fallmerayer the Stationmaster - widely admired as one of the finest things Roth ever wrote - a man of complete ordinariness, defined entirely by routine and habit, encounters something unexpected at his railway station and discovers, too late, that he is capable of an absolute feeling. The discovery costs him everything.In The Emperor's Tomb - his last completed novel, published in 1938, the year of the Anschluss - Franz Ferdinand Trotta watches the final extinction of the Austro-Hungarian world his family served, and goes to stand before the vault where the Habsburg emperors lie buried. One of the most quietly devastating endings in twentieth-century fiction.By Joseph Roth. Author of The Radetzky March. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Luebeck, 1835. The Buddenbrook family is at the height of its prosperity: Johann Buddenbrook, grain merchant and patriarch, opens the doors of his magnificent new home to the cream of the city's society, and the world seems arranged to his satisfaction. The firm is strong. The family is resp…ected. The future is assured.It will not always be so.Buddenbrooks follows four generations of a north German merchant dynasty from the peak of their wealth and social confidence to the extinction of their family line - a span of four decades rendered in extraordinary detail, from births and deaths and weddings and bankruptcies to recipes, sermons, schoolroom humiliations, and the slow, inexorable accumulation of small defeats. With each generation, something shifts: where the founders acted, their children reflect; where the children reflected, their grandchildren agonize; and where the last Buddenbrook should be carrying the firm forward, he can only play the piano and wait for an end he cannot bring himself to resist.Thomas Mann began writing Buddenbrooks at twenty-one, completed it at twenty-five, and published it in 1901 to immediate controversy and eventual worldwide fame. It is his first novel and, by the Swedish Academy's own judgment, the work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 - a debut that has outlasted almost everything written in its century, a family chronicle that is also a philosophical meditation on what it costs a civilization to become fully aware of itself.By Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hans Castorp is twenty-three years old, a well-bred engineer from Hamburg, when he travels to the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin at the Berghof sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks. He stays for seven years.The sanatorium is high above the world of ordinary time, work, and consequenc…e. Its patients - drawn from across Europe, representing every tradition and intellectual persuasion - live in the peculiar suspended present of the chronically ill, where days blur into weeks and years pass without the usual markers of progress or purpose. Into this world Hans Castorp stumbles, receptive and passive and constitutionally unsuited for what is about to happen to his mind.What happens is a full education in the contradictions of modern European civilization, conducted through the endless, brilliant, unresolvable arguments of two great antagonists: Settembrini, the Italian humanist who believes in reason, progress, and the democratic future; and Naphta, the Jesuit authoritarian who believes in hierarchy, death, and the necessity of violence. Between them, Castorp listens. So does the reader.First published in November 1924, The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterpiece and one of the essential novels of the twentieth century - a book about illness and time, about the state of European civilization on the eve of a catastrophe that has already happened by the time it is written, and about what it means to descend, finally, from a mountain and re-enter a world that has been waiting, all this time, to destroy itself.By Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hans Castorp is twenty-three years old, a well-bred engineer from Hamburg, when he travels to the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin at the Berghof sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks. He stays for seven years.The sanatorium is high above the world of ordinary time, work, and consequenc…e. Its patients - drawn from across Europe, representing every tradition and intellectual persuasion - live in the peculiar suspended present of the chronically ill, where days blur into weeks and years pass without the usual markers of progress or purpose. Into this world Hans Castorp stumbles, receptive and passive and constitutionally unsuited for what is about to happen to his mind.What happens is a full education in the contradictions of modern European civilization, conducted through the endless, brilliant, unresolvable arguments of two great antagonists: Settembrini, the Italian humanist who believes in reason, progress, and the democratic future; and Naphta, the Jesuit authoritarian who believes in hierarchy, death, and the necessity of violence. Between them, Castorp listens. So does the reader.First published in November 1924, The Magic Mountain is Thomas Mann's masterpiece and one of the essential novels of the twentieth century - a book about illness and time, about the state of European civilization on the eve of a catastrophe that has already happened by the time it is written, and about what it means to descend, finally, from a mountain and re-enter a world that has been waiting, all this time, to destroy itself.By Thomas Mann. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1929. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
