Weights and Measures
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-80533-065-3 (ISBN)
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Once there, his discipline and quiet dignity begin to dissolve as he encounters a shadowy world of midnight gambling and smugglers, of frozen bodies in the woods and secret allegiances. When he discovers his wife is pregnant by his clerk, he vows to carry out justice. But as right and wrong prove harder to measure than he once thought, Eibenschütz becomes drawn into a destructive affair with the inn keeper's mistress.
A deeply felt commentary on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Weights and Measures portrays the slow capitulation of a good man to insidious small-time corruption.
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna, and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He later worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin, travelling widely, staying in hotels and living out of suitcases, while also being a prolific writer of fiction. Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he died just before the outbreak of World War II. As well as his masterpiece The Radetzky March, he was the author of over two dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including On the End of the World, The Coral Merchant and Flight Without End, all published by or forthcoming from Pushkin Press. David Le Vay (1915-2001) was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the NHS for over thirty years. Combining his medical work with a literary career, he translated from French, German, Spanish and Latin, and authored medical textbooks and biographies of prominent historical surgeons. He married four times and had eleven children.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Pushkin Press Classics |
Übersetzer | David Le Vay |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
ISBN-10 | 1-80533-065-9 / 1805330659 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80533-065-3 / 9781805330653 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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