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The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a new selection of writings about Europe between the wars, by turns poignant, witty and unsettling
The Hotel Years - Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out th ...Show more
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil ...Show more
The Humbling by Philip Roth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'are melted into air, i ...Show more
The Humbling by Philip Roth
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't pe ...Show more
The Hundred Days by Joseph Roth
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and t ...Show more
The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth; Frans Masereel (Illustrator); Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing ...Show more
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A 20th century classic of European literature: a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the prism of three generations of the Trotta family.