$29.92
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2023
Summary
A short, very concentrated early novel by Joseph Roth with an unlikely hero - Andreas Pum, one-legged war veteran and street musician, defying his fate in 1920s Vienna.
At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with his lot, and he even finds an ample widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram turns An…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594071 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594075 |
| Author: | Joseph Roth, Carolin Duttlinger, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 210mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth, Austrian-Jewish novelist, was born in 1894 near Lemberg in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, now in Ukraine. He studied at Vienna University and in the years following World War I worked in Vienna, Berlin and Munich as a journalist, mostly for left-wing publications, which involved him in extensive European travel. He also began to write novels. For most of his life he had no fixed abode, preferring hotel rooms and writing at cafe tables. In 1932 his masterpiece, The Radetzky March, was published. In 1933 when Hitler came to power his position became dangerous and he moved to Paris; his books were amongst those burnt by the Nazis that year. He continued to travel and to write, but began to suffer poor health - partly as a result of alcoholism. He died prematurely in 1939.
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